Posted at 2:00 p.m.
Forgotten behaviors
Civility and respect. Are these two behaviors that are forgotten? Picking up your grocery cart, picking up your dog’s poop, apologizing for hitting on someone, at the grocery store letting someone through who has a few purchases when your cart is overflowing, holding the door for the person who follows… And the list is long. Small gestures that should be done normally. Life would be so much better!
Lise Trepanier
The pebble in the shoe
Yes, there are those who bring back their grocery cart. And there are also those who put back on the shelves the items that others have dropped and left on the floor. Ah! And there are also those who put refrigerated or frozen products in their basket and who, having changed their minds, left them on some shelf, without bothering to bring them back to the fridge or freezer. When we find some, if the cold chain is still intact, we bring them back, if not, we find an attendant to give them to him. The small incivilities are the wart on the nose, the pebble in the shoe, the mosquito in the room, nothing fatal, but exasperating as hell.
Jean-Francois Couture
Freedom
Civility would also be to realize that when you spend your time shouting “libarté”, you are generally talking about “your own little freedom” and not the freedom of society and that our personal freedom obliges us to respect that of others.
Jean Pierre Lalonde
A finger of honor
Above all, do not politely ask someone to take their basket to the designated place, you will undoubtedly be entitled to a finger of honor!
Daniel Des Altars
Clever
Smart and simple to grasp. It should take more space.
Maurice Angers, essayist
my theory
Completely agree with Mr. Dompierre’s opinion! My recent theory is built around an observation I made: there are two categories of people, those who give and those who take, those who strive to be good citizens, to help dough, and those for whom everything is due to them, because they pay taxes. And it’s the same thinking for the business world. Which makes me fear the worst in this climate crisis. I’m losing faith in humanity…
Natalie Tessier
In several places
This lack of civility is real, and we unfortunately find it in several aspects of our daily lives: vehicles wrongly parked in spaces reserved for the disabled, pregnant women or women with babies, electric cars; car ashtrays or litter thrown on the ground, dog droppings being ignored, people unable to say thank you when an access door is held for them, drivers who rush to accelerate as soon as they see your flashing that you want to steer into their lane, and those who rush into yours even though their lane has a red triangle sign that requires you to yield. Unfortunately, and this is sad, the list can be very long (not to mention everything that is said on social networks…).
Yvan Jerome, Laval
The gentleness
I don’t have a car, so no problem with annoying shopping carts, but your text appealed to me nonetheless. I’m really glad you mentioned citizenship. When I was young, it was called propriety and we even had a book on the subject that was being studied and I loved it! Yesterday, I went skating at LaFontaine Park and, on the few benches available, people left their boots there after putting on their skates! Where to sit when some people carefully place their boots on the public bench? Those boots were your grocery cart for me.
Louise Girard
Dig into the wallet
We also change a behavior when we come to dig into your wallet. At Maxi, you lose $1 if you don’t return your basket. At Aldi in the United States, it’s 25 cents. And believe me, there aren’t many baskets lying around.
Richard Lewis
Citizenship
Citizenship, a word and a way of life that have fallen into disuse. I’m like Mr. Dompierre, I always bring the basket back, but for another reason. I worked when I was young, very young, and I put myself in the place of the person who has to go after the abandoned shopping carts everywhere. I give myself a hand.
Bernard Marcoux, writer
Straight in curse
Me, I enter it as far as possible and very straight with the others! I rail against those who send it all crooked askew, preventing them from being stacked! Cursed that I am straight !
Nicole St-Pierre
Exceptions
Totally agree. Citizenship and social conscience! I recognize, however, that the majority of customers will put the basket away. With few exceptions, Quebecers have adopted this habit. Unlike the Americans, who seem not to know the usefulness of this space reserved for baskets. This is only an observation made in a parking lot of a Walmart in Granby and the second, in Florida. Quite a difference!
Diane Blais, Beloeil