Monday DE: Absolutely Trollied

[splash_of_blue]

Ugh. Good God, lads, is it really Monday? Again?

This seems deeply unethical... and so I present you all with an ethics question.

The Shopping Trolley Theory is described as is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. To return the shopping trolley (cart) is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the trolley is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their trolley. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your trolley. Therefore the trolley presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it."

So.

Do your characters return their shopping trolley? (Metaphorically or otherwise...)

Also, I am now objectively unable to parse 'trolley' as a word.

Comments

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka would try but get interrupted...every time.

Jessica would be a mix. She'd try but she can also be very self-focused at times. I'd say most often she'd think to return the trolley but sometimes she shoves it from a few car lengths away certain the trolley will land on target.

[thebattycakes]

It should totally be against the law for Mondays to come around so often.

Cisco - Every time, and he's the type to shout out a, 'FOR REAL?!' at anyone he happens to see too lazy to do it themselves (but doesn't take responsibility for handling it himself).

Barry - Also every time. He'll also offer to take someone's if he happens across them on his way to the cart corral with his own, and picks up strays he finds along the way.

Logan - I picture Logan as very much a buy what you can carry sort of shopper, which means carts aren't an issue. If he did happen to use a cart though he would return it, it's hardly a big deal or hassle to push the dumb thing back.

Matt - Doesn't do a lot of shopping and is also of the sort to buy only what is easy to carry. Somehow left with a cart to return he would take it back, most of the time, when he's not too wrapped up in his own shit to notice or care.

Bill - Almost always take his cart back. Those times when he doesn't he has the misfortune of doing something stupid like backing into it or dinging his own truck door with it.

[magic_by_accident]

John - on the rare occasions he buys actual food, he never returns the trolley.

Vision - always returns the trolley, and returns others that have been abandoned, too.

Sherlock - usually returns the trolley, but doesn't judge people who don't.

[alongfallfromgrace]

Wei Wuxian would return his trolley, and his shijie's trolley, and probably Jiang Cheng's too, and Lan Zhan's, and the one for that family over there, and that little old lady's, and...

Jon returns his. He judges people hardcore for not doing so. Though, to be honest, he usually only buys small amounts at a time because he's living alone in a nearby flat so he doesn't exactly need a trolley most times.

Cecil wants to know why you guys aren't using the semi-sentient trolleys that return themselves. They're great! Except when they bite.

Klaus doesn't use a trolley. He just steals his shit like a self-respecting person, duh When he does, he leaves it where-ever it happens to be when he loses interest in it. In the store, in the parking lot, down the road, at the park, whatever.

Chief Gwi always returns his trolley, and collects up trolleys that he finds along the way to return as well. Unless Special Case is around, in which case the kid can take the trolleys back, he works there after all.

[strongerthanyouknow]

Sara doesn't need to shop, because the Waverider (her time/space ship) makes everything she could ever need. But. Sara is absolutely that girl who runs down the aisle, and jumps her feet on the bottom bar, and rides the trolley down the rest of that aisle, golden hair in streamers behind her. Who jumps off, all flush and high on fun, and smirk-winks at whoever caught her doing it, before James Dean-ing off.

It'd most likely be left at the end of the parking lot, where she met up with her crew and they all headed back to the Waverider.

Marian always puts her trolley back, and she'd got a scathing look for the people who just leave them randomly. Especially those who leave them in the middle of other parking spaces by their car.

Jean always returns her trolleys. Always. And if she's in a serious rush for some reason, she'll just telekinetically float it over the cars stuck in the aisle, to put it back right, and go on with her day.

[zenigatcha]

Lan Zhan: Yes. Absolutely.

Zenigata: He would do so, but if he got a Lupin call during that he'd let go, watch it roll off, scream, grab it before it hit someone's car, THROW it into the trolley stop, and then run off to his car to chase Lupin.

Zuko: Zuko doesn't understand why this seems to be problem, and puts it back.

Vex just lets it go and watches it roll into somebody's car and scratch it before driving off.