No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

Today I pulled into the parking lot at work and noticed there was a lone shopping cart that didn't quite make it back inside the store. If you've ever shopped at Kohl's you know it's not like Wal-Mart. There is no shopping cart area outside. So, somebody clearly got lazy and decided to leave it out. I thought about bringing it back inside, but I said to myself, "Who cares somebody else will do it eventually."

I started to walk away, and I realized.... that's a horrible way to think. If everybody thought this way the world would stop functioning. I remember saying to myself, "Just do it. You don't have to go out of your way. It's the right thing to do." So I picked it up to get it out of the woodchips it was surrounded by, and wouldn't you know it. As I lifted it, the metal bar shoved hard into my shin. It burned and throbbed for a while, but I didn't want to look weak in case anybody was around watching what just happened, so I walked it off like a champ. Not only did I hit it hard enough to bruise, but I actually took a layer of skin off as well.