Five days ago I watched a lady from one
of the properties close-by to my home using a supermarket trolley as
a wheelbarrow to carry her household waste to the rubbish container
in the street. After dumping the refuse bags she headed off back
towards her home nonchalantly pushing the trolley. At the time I
thought – at least she didn't abandon that in the road and will
probably return it to its rightful owner.
Yesterday I watched two men, coming from
the same area as the lady had, pushing a supermarket trolley as a
wheelbarrow to carry garden waste this time. After having fought to
get the bougainvillea cuttings disentangled from the metal mesh of
the trolley, and dumped on the pile of other garden waste left in the
street, they returned from whence they came with the trolley.
The two incidents caused me to briefly
think about the morality of those people who choose to remove
trolleys from supermarket premises for their own use. Do they
consider they are just borrowing it, or stealing it? Do they consider
that it is good customer service by the supermarket to allow them to
take away the trolley as a free gift?
It's stealing in my book.
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