[gxnxcxcx]

There's a minority of people wealthy enough to grease everything with money or really powerful connections. In a conversation involving people doing their own shopping and eating at places where you are presumed to take your tray to the bin I wasn't even thinking about them.

Those who lack that surplus wealth are "leaving money on the table", so to speak, by not caring about others. That's dumb.

And her pedigree or whatever gave her those aristocratic ways didn't save her from mild ostracism at the end of the story, so... That's social capital she left on the table. That's also kinda dumb even if she had enough money/power to enable god mode. It's even dumber if she didn't have it.

[eesmith]

One of today's entries from that site is "Wario Kart", at https://notalwaysright.com/wario-kart/398386/

A customer returns two abandoned carts. Another customer assumes the first is an employee. After learning the truth, “Stupid woke b****! Why are you trying to confuse people!”

There's all sorts of stories on that site from people who make a mess. Some think it's actually a good thing to do, like https://notalwaysright.com/food-trash-for-thought/344130/ :

> One of the friends of a friend suddenly empties the car’s ashtray and garbage onto the parking lot floor.

> Me: “Hey! Pick that back up!”

> Guy: “Nah, they pay people to do that; I’m doing them a favor.”

In that story there is a mild bit of rebuke, but it's clear that's not the first time that guy did that.

Sometimes it's power tripping, like https://notalwaysright.com/if-you-act-like-trash-you-become-...

> Like most fast food places, there are several trash cans conveniently placed with counters attached, so people can clean up their own messes.

> There are always those special folks, though, who leave their trash on the table for the employees to clean up. Usually, it’s just trash, but there is this group of four young guys who always aim to outdo themselves.

It took exceptional circumstances for them to face consequences, in this case, losing a pair of expensive sunglasses. Again, it clearly wasn't the first time.

Or some just think that's the way things are, and pass on that belief to the next generation, like https://notalwaysright.com/mopportunity-knocks/398025/ "

> A mum and her young child are coming through my lane when the child spills a lot of juice all over the floor and part of my register. The mum, without hesitation, says to the child:

> Customer: “Don’t worry. It’s their job to tidy up.”

Again, there is rebuke

> My shoulders sink as I’m about to accept my fate, when my manager, who happened to be nearby, runs over with a wet mop (we keep one by the registers at all times just in case) and hands it to the mum.

> Manager: “Nope. Your monkey, your circus.”

> Customer: A bit discombobulated. “That… that’s not how it works!”

But the reason these stories make that web site is because rebuke is rare, and thus noteworthy, while showing that a lot of people - not just those who are wealthy or have really powerful connections - do this.

[gxnxcxcx]

I fully acknowledge their existence. I'm sure I most certainly engage into equivalent antisocial behavior in some way or another wherever I most lack awareness, and my sole point is that, for most of us, when we are doing that, we dumb.

Slightly veering OT:

While I get the sore need for a place to vent after being subjected to a customer-facing workday, the website you keep linking to gives me in aggregate the rage farming vibes that are as prone to distort everyday reality as blind naïveté could be.