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But do you even bring your glass back to the bar before you leave?

My wife goes crazy with this, gets every last little thing together. I do some, but not like she does. I'm not sure they want all the straw wappers and shit on top of the pile of places anyway.

As a former waiter, I have a counterpoint:

• I can't carry that wobbly precarious mess you've made, and it's easier to disassemble and reassemble it because I know how to do this.

Thus, you've created work for me.

Thankfully I haven't been a waiter in - oh look! - 30 years.

If you leave your cart in a parking space, you're sub-human

You're passible if you take it to the corral

But a truly good human will stack the carts into proper rows if the carts are loose in the corral

This comment section is a nice mix of "I'm a waiter, please don't do this, you're making my job harder" and "I always do this to make the waiters' lives easier"

Waiters have told me to please not stack the dishes because it messes with their carrying technique.

My dad gets legitimately angry when I do this. Boomers are a different breed

My wife and I do this, but I've always wondered whether I'm actually helping or just creating a different kind of inconvenience by not organizing them in a beneficial way.

I thought this to be common courtesy everywhere?

As long as you don't overstack it. Make a tidy stack that can be carried easily with one hand securely. If you eg put utensils between plates you can cause an accident.

I may tidy up. But I don't stack. I won't even stack at my house, I hate touching the dirty bottom of a plate.

I usually have a pack of gum and I deliberately start a pattern on how I take pieces out. Usually it's from left to right, emptying a full row before I move on to the next.

My test is to offer them gum and see where they pick from. Will they recognize a pattern and continue it? Or will they be oblivious?

Either way, it's not a measure of good or bad. It's just a fun lil test.

My family would get upset if you did that or if the server came by and offered to take the empty plate away. Why yes one of them is named karen. How did you guess?

This and the shopping cart thing share the theme of consuming with less cost to the business owner, but with no actual difference (or making it worse) for the employees. Their boss will use all of their time no matter how much work they do. You aren't saving them work; you're saving the boss' money.

If you decline to go into a business near closing, then you're my kind of people. If you tip highly you're my kind of people. If you order clearly, concisely, and politely you're my kind of people.

But while you're pushing Sisyphus' boulder up the hill, he just has to go find another boulder.

My test is mostly how do they treat my visibly disabled husband. Who also is older than me and looks it. I don't like being treated like I'm his nurse. I understand why they might think daughter so I'm ambivalent towards that. A lot of people are short and snippy with him because he's harder to understand and that gets me upset.

you want me to work for you, pay for everything, and tip you?

My boomer mother did this. My boomer father was indifferent.

I do this.

For the record, the only things that get stacked are things that are perfectly stackable, I don't put a plate on top of a half-eaten cheese steak or leave utensils in the middle.