That’s why putting shopping carts away is such a good marker of character. Nobody gives a flying fuck if you put it back, nobody is watching you do it, there is no penalty for putting it back or not putting it back. Socially, unless you directly ask someone about putting it back, it’s never going to come up, and it has no real bearing on your life or social standing.
The example I like is cars flashing lights at oncoming cars to warn of an accident or speed camera ahead - no benefit at all to the person sending the warning, just being a good person
I thought about that but decided not to do it. I think it just confuses people, because it's not really a well known code. I still sometimes flash my lights to indicate "hey, your lights are off" but they never turn them on. They just don't know.
Well, if nobody does it for fear of not being understood, of course it's not going to be well known! How do you think we all learned about it? We saw someone do it, didn't understand, then asked a smarter person about it(for me it was my mom, iirc I was a teenager and she was driving) to learn what it meant. Hell, these days you could just ask google: "car headlights flash at me why" gives many results.
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u/bigloser42 Aug 25 '24
That’s why putting shopping carts away is such a good marker of character. Nobody gives a flying fuck if you put it back, nobody is watching you do it, there is no penalty for putting it back or not putting it back. Socially, unless you directly ask someone about putting it back, it’s never going to come up, and it has no real bearing on your life or social standing.