From the internet: The viral "Shopping Cart Theory" proposes that an individual's moral character can be determined by whether they choose to return a shopping cart to its designated spot after use or whether they simply leave it wherever it suits them....
To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it."
It's also a pet peeve of mine. I saw this cart on the way into the shopping this afternoon left in the middle of a parking space. It was 20 steps (yes, I counted) from a cart return. Maybe 30 seconds, tops.
I guess it qualifies as a "first world problem", though.
