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Be Kind Please Rewind, Or At Least Don’t Leave Your Cart In The Middle Of The Parking Lot

Today at work we were talking in casual conversation about going the extra tiny step for someone else.

What spurred the conversation was that yesterday I was at the grocery store doing some shopping.  I picked up a bottle of bathroom cleaner... The cap wasn't screwed on.  So, I got cleaner liquid on my hand. I didn't think too much of it, I screwed the cap back on tight and I nonchalantly read the back label.

WARNING!  THIS CAN BURN YOUR HAND OFF!

OH MY!!!

Not really, but it did say it can cause severe skin burns if prolonged contact with skin is made... So I left my cart there and ran to the bathroom to wash my hand off so that it wouldn't burn off.  Upon returning to the cart containing my shopping items I continued on my way to gather up the rest of the things on my list.  One of the items was a box of Ritz Crackers to bring down as a snack with a bruschetta dip-esk type of thing to have before dinner at that girl's place that I'm kind of sort of seeing-ish.  She made us New York Strip Steak... Cut at a legit butcher and what not.  I mentioned it in passing to my one coworker today and she was like...

"Let me get this straight.  You puked in this girl's toilet after drinking HER wine... and she still made you NY Strip Steak?"
"Well when you put it that way..."
"You put a ring on that right away!"

To be fair I've bought her dinner and drinks and what not... So, we're like just buying each other meals/making one another meals.  Or something like that.  We're even at this point.

I mean, okay sure, I enjoy her company... But I'm not about to put a ring on it, like, tomorrow.  We're just... seeing one another.  It's nothing serious.  I've just managed to go on more than a first or second date with a girl.  That's all it is though.  No rings.  Just... seeing and what not and things.

Ok ANYWAYS... When I got to the parking lot I put my items in my car and then stowed the cart properly in the little cart shack, I noticed a whole slew of carts that had just been strewn about all over the place.  People just left them any old place, between cars... In the middle of the road even.  It just makes it so the cart person has to run all around to gather the carts.  I did that for two years in high school before moving to cashier.  It's just such a pain when people leave them all over like that, and it only takes a few seconds more to put it properly in the little shack thing.

Fast forward to today at work.  I'm talking to my boss about the store incident (after I was talking to my coworker about the steak thing) and he's just like oh yeah, he makes it a point to take an item all the way back to it's very spot in the store if he changes his mind.  He hates when people leave things any old place.  I don't much care for that either.  You're just making more work for the people at the store.  Just be kind and take it back to where you picked it up at if you've changed your mind.  It's a simple gesture.

We talked about other examples where it's just nice to make things a little tiny bit easier for those that come after you.  Or for someone that might already have a crappy job.  Okay for example... I don't like to throw loose trash in the trashcan.  Every Tuesday morning the trash truck comes around exactly at 7:30 when my alarm goes off.  I see them out there in the frigid winter cold and humid summer heat hustling their bums off in a not so glamorous job... But an important one at that!  It just makes their job SOOOOOO much easier to have everything in bags.  When there are loose things in the trashcan they just have to work a little extra to lift the whole trash can and then fumble around with it to get that stubborn little piece out at the bottom.  Don't do that to them... Just put it all in bags so they can just grab the bags and move on to the next one.

Things like that can make someone's day.  So, just be kind and rewind.  Or... I guess in these modern times that we live in... Be kind and don't plot spoil a Netflix Original show on social media before your friends have had a chance to watch it.