Laziness....A Fresh Start

It has been a while since I last blogged, so hang with me while I try to get back into the swing of things. Over the past year, a ton of things have changed for me. There are things I will write about that will make you question whether I am telling the truth, things that will make you curious and things that will generally piss you off. For those that know me well, I am not one to really shade my comments, so here we go again. If you disagree, I respect that completely. These are my opinions, so take them for what they are worth (which will be about five minutes of your time, per post).

Photo courtesy of Garden Grove, CA

Sure there are things I could talk about from the past year, but why not start with something that happened today that reminded me of something that brings out disdain from both myself and my brother. That thing is shopping carts. While at a local market this afternoon, there was a woman, who with my best judgement, was about 50 years of age. She was ahead of me in line, with about the equivalent of one bag's worth of groceries. As I patiently waited, she finished up her paying (which would have been around five times faster if she didn't dig through her change purse that she couldn't find in the first place) and put her single bag back in her shopping cart. As I paid for my massive shopping list of two items, I followed her out of the store. After she got about halfway through the parking lot, she promptly took her bag out of the cart and let the cart roll into a concrete barrier. She then carried her bag to her car and drove off.


It raises the issue to me of how horribly self-centered and generally lazy people really are. Instead of either A) Taking her cart all the way to her car and returning it to one of the cart return ports or B) Just leaving the cart by the store to carry her one bag of groceries (which consisted of the heaviest item being a box of what may have been cake mix), she just decided to ditch the cart there in the middle of nowhere. By doing this, it forced the gentleman who was in charge of gathering the carts and returning them to their proper spot to have to walk all the way across the parking lot to get this one stray cart.


I will be the first person to tell you that exercising is not one of my strengths, but laziness is a supreme issue in this country. I am not saying that all people are lazy, but I would venture to say that there is a heavier majority leaning toward lazy than those who are active. Do I enjoy being lazy and sitting around doing nothing? Absolutely. Something as small as an extra twenty or thirty steps to return a cart, inexcusable. It has happened before while I was in Florida visiting my brother where we have had moments of boiling over the top with anger while people do this. In a specific instance I can recall, my brother was about to park in a spot where a woman was loading her car. Right before we pulled in, she had finished and rolled her cart right into the spot. What ensued was an outburst from my brother that cannot be repeated here.


The point I am trying to make is that people really need to consider the effects of the things they do. Take that extra 30 seconds and return your cart. Unless you get run over in the process, it isn't going to kill you. Be considerate and realize that the things you do have an effect on the people around you.


It is different if the person is handicapped or in some other way incapable of returning said cart. If you are able, you have no excuse.


Here ends the first of my new set of rants. Has this happened to you before? Have you been guilty of this before? Does it piss you off as much as it does me? Let me know, either on Facebook, Twitter (@mark_stank) or below in the comments section.

Have a great day.


MLS