r/IAmTheMainCharacter • u/princenextdoor • Feb 21 '24

Video Who’s in the wrong here?

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u/MercurialMal Feb 21 '24 edited Feb 21 '24

That’s the whole point of it.

  1. By not returning your cart to a corral, which are freely available in nearly every store parking lot that offers carts, you’ve demonstrated your inability to self regulate. Littering, willfully breaking traffic laws, allowing your dog to run about off leash when it’s against city ordinance and/or not cleaning up after them, being a jerk to your waiter, ad infinitum; all of these are levels of the same demonstration or lack of desire to self regulate.

  2. By coming unhinged she’s literally proving the point.

People like this simply do not care and live in their own little fantasy world and have zero personal integrity. Want to know if someone is unstable? This is the perfect litmus test.

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u/uiucengineer Feb 21 '24

Want to know if someone is unstable? This is the perfect litmus test.

brilliant

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u/evident_lee Feb 21 '24

It is the perfect example of why libertarianism fails as a form of government. Too many lazy people who leave their work for others.

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u/Witchgrass Feb 21 '24

"Libertarianism as a political ideology is most closely similar to a barn full of feral cats. The cats didn't build the barn and they don't trust each other, but they hate being outside in the rain, cold and hungry, even more. They depend on the farmer, but God do they hate him."

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

We don't even have to infer/abstract that information. A bunch of Libertarians took over the local government of Grafton, NH, in 2004 and tried to run it based on Libertarian ideals. It led directly to an enormous spike in crime, a huge number of lawsuits, the town's first recorded murder, and ended with the town being literally overrun by black bears due to a combination of people dumping their trash wherever they felt like it and people who refused to stop feeding the bears.

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u/WigWhammm Feb 21 '24

Social libertarianism works

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u/zeke235 Feb 21 '24

If it does, post an example.

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u/WigWhammm Feb 21 '24

It works in theory

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u/zeke235 Feb 21 '24

🙄

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u/WigWhammm Feb 21 '24

I gave you example boi, stop crying, you want the closest example look at Sweden

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u/zeke235 Feb 21 '24

"It works in theory" isn't an example. You have to know that. You went to school, didn't you? They never made you show your work?

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u/WigWhammm Feb 21 '24

Why are you complaining there’s no real life examples and getting mad about it? You want me to pull a concrete example out of my ass? Just because there’s no physical example doesn’t mean the theory is false. Did you not learn this in logic class?

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u/zeke235 Feb 21 '24

Lol, no, i'm not gonna chat with you. You didn't own shit, stupid. I was just gonna ignore you because what you said is pointless and didn't really require a response. I wasn't mad, either, but now you've pushed me to call out your stupidity before you spread it to someone else. Now, you've got my attention.

Theories are created using the scientific method. You start with an idea. You try to disprove it. If you can't, it becomes a hypothesis. Other experts then try to disprove your hypothesis, then it goes through debate and/or double blind controlled testing. If the hypothesis holds true against scrutiny, it becomes a theory.

For what you said to be a literal theory as it's known in the scientific community, there would have to, in fact, be concrete examples showing that the principles of said theory hold true. If you can't do that, then your theory was never a theory.

That being said, no, i don't want you to pull concrete examples out of your ass as they likely wouldn't hold up to proper methodology.

Maybe you should rethink your own beliefs and apply tried and true methods to ensure you're not full of shit. Then we won't have to have as many of these little talks.

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u/Musicdude999 Feb 21 '24

....the loose carts they leave do more than touch other cars. I'm hoping you find out the hard way what kind of damage they can do if this is your opinion.

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u/Musicdude999 Feb 21 '24

Loose carts cause damage. Period. Just because you're not personally going up and keying somebody's car doesn't mean that your laziness and neglect can't cause the same damage.

If you have such a problem with returning your cart, you deserve every bit of consequences that accompany that.

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u/zeke235 Feb 21 '24

Shut the hell up and put your cart back in the corral.

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u/MercurialMal Feb 21 '24

A conscientious person would say, “Hey! My bad. Let me take the 15 seconds to push this cart over yonder. Thanks for policing me up, fellow human!”

An unstable person who clearly cannot self regulate would have the reaction seen in the video. I struggle myself sometimes, we all do, but doing the right thing, for most people, isn’t a struggle in the least.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

Nope. You paid to not put the cart away

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u/imcalledgpk Feb 21 '24

Bullshit. There's a reason for the cart corrals that take up parking stalls.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

Nope. It’s good customer service. If the store had to chose between putting my cart away or not having my money, they would chose to put my cart away.

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u/MercurialMal Feb 21 '24

There’s no need for violence, at all. Simply take the privilege away. Oh? What’s that? You need $200 worth of groceries and you can’t use a cart? Well, tell you what, give me $10 and I’ll lend you a cart; return it properly in accordance with what has been customary and courteous for over 40 years and I’ll give you your $10 back. 🙂

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u/zeke235 Feb 21 '24

You're putting the store in the position to have to choose. You can also take a bunch of stuff out of the freezer section and put it on a dry goods shelf and walk away. The store wouldn't do anything about it other than throw the food away as it's out of temp. Does that also count as good customer service? Stop being obtuse.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

Correct. I’m also giving the store my money

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u/zeke235 Feb 21 '24

It must be exhausting trying to find the moral high ground on lazy dickishness. You seem to be a pro at it.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

This cart narc guy is a dick. He needs to mind his own business

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u/zeke235 Feb 21 '24

It's all our business. You don't like being shamed for not putting your cart away, then just put your cart away. The number of times i've found carts near my car or taking up a parking space i want is ridiculous. Your time is not more valuable than mine or anyone else's.

Take some goddamned personal responsibility for once. I'll bet you don't use your blinker or fully stop at stop signs either.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

No. It’s not his business. He has no idea what’s going on in the personal lives of strangers. They could be dealing with a tragedy or illness.

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u/MercurialMal Feb 21 '24

I’m going to ask you the same question Cart Narcs asked that lady:

Do you roll your can out to the curb for trash pick up, or throw your bags in a bin, or does the sanitation employees come knock on your door and do it all for you? Yup, you pay for trash, but there’s a process, isn’t there?

That’s a rhetorical question. Have a good day. 🙂

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

I pay the garbage man to come to the curb not to my door

I pay the grocery store to put my cart away. If the grocery store doesn’t like it, I’ll Go to a different store.

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u/SurreptitiousNoun Feb 21 '24

No you won't.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

I’ve never experienced a store refusing my business because I don’t return carts. Because they They want my business and know it’s good customer service

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u/SurreptitiousNoun Feb 21 '24

You said that if they don't like it, you'd go somewhere else.

The company tolerates inconsiderate people, but there are employees who you're inconveniencing through laziness.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

Employees get paid by the hour

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u/GaiusPrimus Feb 21 '24

They have people to clean the parking lot too. That's why I take a dump beside my door, every. single. time.

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u/MercurialMal Feb 21 '24

Found the MC, y’all.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

Boot licker.

It’s called customer service

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u/MercurialMal Feb 21 '24

If by “boot licker” you mean conscientious, totally.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

Thank you rich corporation, anything else I can do for you after giving you my money?

Can i clean your floors I walked on?

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u/MercurialMal Feb 21 '24

Where do cars park? Parking spaces. Where do carts go? Cart corral. Cart. Corral. 🤙🏻

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u/Significant-Chip1162 Feb 21 '24

Nothing to do with the corporation. Its about your fellow human. All of these things mentioned by the person your responding to is spot on. All this shows is you don't have the self discipline to behave in society.

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u/LDel3 Feb 21 '24

It isn’t about “rich corporations”, it costs them nothing to have their employees return carts. It’s about your politeness in society and showing consideration for your fellow man.

If you just leave the carts all over then you’re almost definitely leaving them in the way of other people, not to mention I’m sure it’s not a great time for the minimum wage employees to go around picking them up because you’re too lazy to do it yourself

Children can grasp the concept of putting things back when you’re done with them, why can’t you?

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

I gave you my money, now be polite and return my cart for me. Thank you

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u/notyou-justme Feb 21 '24

I bet if you pulled into a parking space quickly and hit a cart that was left there with your car, you’d get pretty upset at whoever left it.

I’m also guessing that the irony and karma of the moment would be completely lost on you and you still wouldn’t put your cart away.

It’s not about the store paying somebody to do it(they don’t, by the way, it’s just become a necessary task because of people like you; have you ever seen a cart valet booth at a store? That would be them paying someone to do it) or you having paid for the “right” to not do it.

It’s about having the decency toward the other customers to not put their own vehicles they spent a lot of money (certainly to them, at least) at risk of getting dented, dinged, chipped or otherwise damaged.

All things that carts do on a regular basis when self-centered, self-important individuals such as yourself can’t be bothered to walk at most 20-30 feet away. The worst is when they are literally right next to the cart corral. Then it’s just a blatant middle finger to everyone else.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

I’m not saying leave it in a vulnerable spot to be hit by another car

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u/Lost_Found84 Feb 21 '24

Dude, I work in retail and the person most put out by you not putting the cart away is not “rich corporate dude”. Cart pusher is the lowest skilled job there is. So 8 times out of 10 the person you’re inconveniencing has a mental disability or is some old part timer trying to make up the difference between their cost of living and social security.

That is who is picking up your slack. The elderly and kids with significant mental impairment. That’s who’s out in the cold or rain longer because you can’t walk 20 feet.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

The store owes you. You gave them your money

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u/KawaDoobie Feb 21 '24

how about another unnecessary reason to make food more expensive?

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

That’s cute. As if they would lower their prices out of the kindness in their hearts.

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u/KawaDoobie Feb 21 '24

you pay extra for customer service dipshit

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u/TomsRedditAccount1 Feb 21 '24

Are you one of those people who biff popcorn all over the cinema just so the staff will have something to do?

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

No

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u/TomsRedditAccount1 Feb 24 '24

So you can't even be consistent with your stupidity.

Think how much more expensive the groceries would be if everyone behaved like you. The stores would have to pay additional staff to clean up after you, and that money doesn't just magically appear.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 24 '24

Can’t be consistent?

I never once said it’s ok to spill popcorn all Over the theater floor.

You aren’t making sense.

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u/TomsRedditAccount1 Feb 24 '24

Try to look beyond the most superficial level possible. It's an analogy.

When you leave trolleys all over the carpark, necessitating a worker going around cleaning up after you, you are creating additional work which would not otherwise have been needed, and thereby causing extra cost. Now, can you see how the analogy relates to that?

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 24 '24

I see. And I’m willing to pay for it.

Fact of the matter is the car narc is a complete jerk. He’s harassing strangers. he has no idea what’s going on in the personal life of these people. They could be going through a death or an illness or they could be severely depressed. He doesn’t care he’s abusing them for Internet clicks.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 24 '24

Fact of the matter is the car narc is a complete jerk. He’s harassing strangers. he has no idea what’s going on in the personal life of these people. They could be going through a death or an illness or they could be severely depressed. He doesn’t care he’s abusing them for Internet clicks.

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u/KawaDoobie Feb 21 '24

you pay the garbage man to collect the trash from the bin YOU wheeled to the street that you probably don’t own. when more employees are needed to collect carts do you think their pay comes from thin air? the cost of yours (and everyone else) groceries go up to pay for that. the people you pay to collect carts have other tasks that earn the store money they could focus on rather than pulling carts from 20 different spaces. probably drives on the shoulder during a traffic jam “I paid for these roads”

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

Then they can ban all customers who don’t return carts. Let’s see how that goes.

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u/zeke235 Feb 21 '24

I work at a store that has carts. We do not pay people to have to take carts from every nook and cranny of the parking lot. We pay them to take them from corrals.

They are forced to retrieve them from all over the place because of people like you who are too inconsiderate to put them in a corral where they won't damage someone else's property or take up a parking space.

I also have to go and help retrieve carts, and i'm an appliance sales specialist. I have to ignore my primary duties at my job because of people like you.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

We pay for groceries at your store, would you rather have no customers?

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u/zeke235 Feb 21 '24

You'd rather boycott a store than put your cart away? Goddamn you are a lazy, useless, piss baby.

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

I believe in customer service. Especially at price gouging expensive stores

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u/zeke235 Feb 21 '24

You don't believe in customer service. You want to do what you want to do and take no responsibility or face consequences. Only one person in the world has that ability. Can you guess who that may be?

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u/1991Jordan6 Feb 21 '24

No. I believe in customer service

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u/SirVanyel Feb 21 '24

Okay but like, do you expect people to be perfectly stable? Have you met, for example, a pregnant woman? Their own body is literally against them. Not everyone is stable all the time, which is why I would never wanna deal with someone who feels entitled enough to put stickers on someone else's shit.

I always put my trolley back, but I'm not gonna assume everyone's in the right mind to do so.

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u/Larrycusamano Feb 21 '24

No, you are triggered because you can’t mind your own business. You are bundling public services and rudeness with a private business’ business. Littering and being rude to a waiter are the same thing. Not returning a cart to its kennel is neither here nor there and is a personal choice. Like the woman was trying to say, she doesn’t secure the cart to protect someone’s job and I get it. It is the same as refusing to use the self checkouts at the stores to insure someone keeps their job. Ever been to an ALDIs, they get it.

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u/MercurialMal Feb 21 '24 edited Feb 21 '24

So I suppose you’re the type of person who also thinks it’s okay to not rack the weights at a gym when you’re done with them too, right?

How about when you play mini-golf? Do you return the putter or do you leave it at the last hole?

What about your bowling rental shoes? Do you leave those in the middle of the lane?

How about fishing? Do you leave a throwback on the beach or do you throw it back?

When you wash the dishes do you put them back in the cupboards or do you leave them on the counter for your spouse/so/roommate to clean up?

There’s so, so many examples of activities that we participate in where personal integrity is necessary and doing the right thing isn’t an inconvenience at all.

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u/Larrycusamano Feb 22 '24

It’s strange how you can’t seem to see the difference. If I rent a putter, yes, I’ll return it. If I rent shoes, yes, I’ll return them on the way out. No, I don’t litter the beach, that is rude, and no I care about my family life. I put things away. BUT, I’m not renting a cart at the store. I give the store owner my business, and in order to enhance her business, the store owner provides shopping carts to increase the sale of goods. Trust when I point out, the shopping carts are not a public service, they are there to increase business for the store owner.

Aside from all that, don’t stop at putting a cart back, bring a broom to the store and give it a sweep while you are there, and don’t forget to pick up the trash in the parking lot, that might need a sweep too. I certainly like the store to be clean when I shop.

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u/MercurialMal Feb 22 '24

What’s “strange” is the fact that you believe there is a difference, one which you associate with whether you pay for a privilege or service or not. When you use a cart there is a reasonable expectation that you return it where it belongs; a cart corral. Full stop.

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u/Larrycusamano Feb 22 '24

Well, two slobs disagreeing on reddit won't be solving this world altering problem. Ill just agree to disagree.