The Civic Grace Test
Singapore has many national tests.
PSLE.
Driving test.
IPPT.
But there is one test that reveals far more about a person.
The trolley test.
No one is watching.
No one will fine you.
There is no CCTV officer waiting to issue a summons.
You have finished shopping.
You have pushed the trolley across the carpark.
Across the road.
All the way to your block.
Then the final moment arrives.
Do you push the trolley back?
Or do you leave it there and walk away as if gravity will return it to the supermarket by itself?
It is a fascinating moment.
Because returning the trolley takes two minutes.
And leaving it there saves exactly two minutes.
But those two minutes quietly separate two kinds of people.
The ones who think about others.
And the ones who assume someone else will clean up after them.
No law forces you to return a trolley.
Which is exactly why it reveals so much.
