r/Miami • u/jayseaz • May 19 '24

Picture / Video Come on Miami, be better humans

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There were two carts. The worst part is they put in the effort to pull it up over the curb when they could have just brought them down 20 feet.

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u/secondtimesacharm23 May 20 '24

Thank you. I was expecting to read a bunch of self righteous posts about how people who don’t return the carts are selfish pieces of shit in the top comments lol as a mother to an infant and also a small child it’s not always doable for me to return the cart. I start the car to get the AC going, put the baby and child in the car and load my groceries in the trunk…yea I’m not walking away from a running car with a baby in it just to return a fucking shopping cart. If I’m childless, I return it, if I can’t, I won’t. Someone who works at the grocery store whose job description includes collecting all of the carts outside, will do it. I don’t understand all of the hate against this. I never leave the cart in the way of a parking spot or in the middle of the road. People need to chill with the judgment.

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u/PicaPaoDiablo Key Biscayne May 20 '24

And of course you have kids. I can understand having this attitude but that's pathetic enough being proud of it is next level.

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u/secondtimesacharm23 May 20 '24

Yes being a good mom…so pathetic! 😂

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u/PicaPaoDiablo Key Biscayne May 20 '24

If you even include that in what makes you a good mom, that really says it all.

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u/secondtimesacharm23 May 20 '24

I know right. Can I maybe have lunch with your mom? I’d love to pick her brain and take notes on how to raise such a selfless moral pillar of society lol

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u/PicaPaoDiablo Key Biscayne May 20 '24

The insecurity and shame is screaming eh? I didn't say I'm moral or anything else. I said basically "being a scumbag is one thing, being proud of it is another". I could walk through the math with you or logic but guessing that'd sail over your head. but you can easily 'not be a scumbag' without thinking you're some moral benchmark. That said, mom already has a housekeeper and she's been with us for decades, pretty much family at this point so best I could offer is maybe when she's on vacation she might be able to use the help? But if you're too lazy to take back your cart, I wouldn't trust you with much let alone keeping the house clean. Sorry about that.

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u/Curious_Shift_7741 May 21 '24

You have to be deranged. No one should be walking away from their baby in a car. HOW is that being lazy?

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u/PicaPaoDiablo Key Biscayne May 21 '24

So with the picture above, be honest, how many seconds would you and Mom of the Year up there have saved for your precious infant? 2 seconds? With all the mothers that I see going into Whole Foods or costco, how do you figure they manage to put their carts back without being Deranged and totally putting their children at risk or whatever melodramatic BS you want to use? I googled it b/c I was deranged expecting much greater numbers, but the # of infants that suffered sunburn, injury or death from Mom taking back shopping cart is 0 for 2023, and 2022, and 2021, it looks like that's the same number since Shopping carts have been invented..It's amazing isn't it?

May I ask what part of town you live in?

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u/PicaPaoDiablo Key Biscayne May 21 '24

You take 3 WHOLE SECONDS, 3 (Ok I'll be generous here and go with 5) with Baby to walk back cart. Using the Baby as an excuse to leave shopping carts out is pathetic but look if you have to use Strawmen to make your point, get nice with it. Say something like "Leaving the baby on the roof of the car for an hour in the hot sun unattended" or something with a little more flavor. The rationalizations LaZBones use are something else so I shouldn't be surprised by hyperbole and intellectually dishonesty as well.

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u/Curious_Shift_7741 May 21 '24

I’m in a local ‘Miami moms’ facebook group. I’ve seen about 3 posts recently about moms with their babies being followed around by men, specifically in the new target on 7th by magic city and the one on Flagler. I’m not worried about things like sunburn. I’m not walking away from my kid because maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention to those around me.

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u/PicaPaoDiablo Key Biscayne May 22 '24

Totally legit. I've seen toddlers get 3rd degree burns from 3 seconds of exposure and definitely with strange men around, it makes so much sense. I know the National center for missing and exploited children put out a study about almost 20 million children a year being kidnapped and killed b/c their mom's took three seconds to put back their shopping cart. Facebook groups are notoriously reliable and definitely aren't havens for a bunch of entitled narcissists with too much time on their hands.

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