It can't be just me, right? You go to the grocery store and park your car and discover that you have to dodge grocery carts just to get into a parking space. Upon leaving your car, you pass several carts just sitting among the cars, an accident waiting to happen. Why?
The question has bugged me for some time and I am torn between either simply laziness, apathy, or a gross disregard for others. I have seen carts less than ten feet from the cart corral, parked between parked vehicles, abandoned. Seriously? We can't take the few extra steps to put a cart back? Sad.
I don't know if there is really a lesson to be learned from the cart abandoned in the parking lot. People often only care about what affects them immediately. Once the cart is used, why bother putting it away? You are leaving, so what does it matter if someone else's car gets a nasty scratch in the paint job?
Now that my tongue-in-cheek moment is over, I would have to say that the biblical principal of doing unto others should apply here. Before we opt to flee the parking lot leaving an abandoned cart sitting in the lot waiting for a nice paint job to come along, how about thinking of that next person. If you don't want to run up into a maze of carts creating an obstacle course, try not leaving one for someone else to have to avoid.
Make sense?
