Interesting ? This is the most depressing thing I’ve seen in a long time

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Is this cemetery located outside an Aldi? /s

Looks like a deposit not renting.. u get ur money back if you return ur can..

Exactly

Why do you say depressing? It's a deposit to encourage people to return them.

Its so people can water the flowers they planted for their loved ones. It’s actually very sweet

Of course, that’s why it should be free . It’s sad that some “entrepreneur” saw a business opportunity in other people’s grief .

That’s quite usual here

It's more of a deposit as the connection looks like the same you find on shopping trolleys.

every cementery in germany (and every other countires cementery I've been to) has watering cans without deposit. they just lay around next to a faucet for everyone to use and return. Its really sad that you need to use those means of distribution due to the seemingly widespread stealing?

Touché! In that case it’s borrowing more than renting and it’s a sweet idea .

100%, it is a shame we live in a world where the deposit is required but it's fair enough and as you say, it is a sweet idea.

it's not renting. you get your money back in full after returning the sprinkler.

I was under the impression that this kinda thing (like shopping carts) was also so that nobody has to go around collecting all of them and bringing them back? The people using them just do it for you if they want their money back

Everyone just returns them here, there is no one going around. You grab a can near the faucet, use it, and return it to the faucet. The fact that these simple social behaviors don’t seem to apply in the us belgium (or anywhere, really) is sad to me

Yep! I’m from the US, and so are my parents. The difference in me vs my own mother is insane— when we’re at a grocery store she just pushes the cart behind someone else’s car, into grass, etc. I never understand why. All of her small acts of laziness throughout life (circling a parking lot until she finds a spot closest to the building open instead of parking far away, for example) has caused her to gain weight and then “it’s too far of a walk to return the basket” eyeroll

I've never seen this behaviour in europe with shopping carts. you maybe find a single cart randomly somewhere but thats super rare and there isnt any personal running around collecting them. I'm really sorry you have such narcissistic parents! Glad you can break the chain, I really hope future generations can learn from this and americans can adapt a more healthy, social behaviour in the decades to come

…the watering cans are also cursed.

Well exactly. The fact that otherwise people would be stealing watering cans from cemeteries is depressing.

watering the dead?

... that's bad

The picture is taken in Belgium, not the US

Real life Plants vs. Zombies!

This doesn’t appear to be in the US. Look at the sign.

If there's one thing Germans love, it's following rules. Everyone knows to return the watering cans, so the watering cans are returned.

It is quite telling about the Dutch that despite having a deposit system on the cans they're essentially useless anyway as people have stolen the roses from the spouts.

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So they sell watering cans with a great return policy?

If anything most people would bring the random cart back because it feels wrong for it to be there

Every cemetery I’ve seen have this in Sweden. But not deposit, they are just there for anyone to borrow

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Looks like you just pay a deposit, rather than rent them. This is like supermarket trolleys (looks like the exact same mechanism), it's simply designed to make sure you put them back.

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But you get your choice of spout.

I think people who visit their gone relatives in the cemetery are more likely to care about others, be respectful, and wanting their loved ones rest in a nice environment. That's why a deposit isn't necessary (in most places).

Not sure if this is a joke... but just in case: In many places it's common to decorate graves with all sorts of plants.

My grandmother is in a cemetery that has watering cans and other gardening equipment for rent like this. It's so you can tend to any flowers you leave at the grave. Honestly it always seemed like a racket to me - The place charges you annually if you plant flowers. They charge you a fee if you let the flowers die and they have to remove them. And they charge you to rent gardening equipment to maintain the flowers.

of course it is a joke

It's not that stealing is widespread, but we still treat everyone like criminals. How do you think we keep putting up these mass incarceration numbers year after year? Prison industrial complex.

“That's good!”

Shit talking US about a photo not taken in the US… crazy.

Anyway pretty sure those cart-quarter machines started in Europe. Know for a fact my German teacher 20 years ago explained the concept, long before anyone here had been to Aldi’s for the first time. Y’all literally invented the practice than judge others for using it? Hypocrite.

I’m not even shittalking or judging, why are you so offended? If the scenario I described doesn’t happen in the Us the better. I just said this form of distrust in everyday live makes me sad and thankfully I haven’t experienced it in my country, doesn’t matter which country it happens.

You’re equating a coin deposit of a watering can in a country that isn’t the US (look at the sign) to the prison industrial complex in the US?

Reddit moment

It has nothing to do with treating anyone like a criminal. Have you ever been to a grocery store? People routinely don’t put carts back which is why Aldi’s does the same thing in the pic to get a shopping cart. It’s amazing how many people will walk their ass back up to the store just to get their quarter back.

Not everything is a dark dystopian conspiracy…

Wow, people really hate the word Exactly

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I’m not offended.

But you are using a picture from a Belgian cemetery to judge America, and then using a system developed in Europe to judge America.

Seems like you’re either working from bad info, or have a conclusion already decided and trying to make the points fit your desired end results. Either way it is disingenuous.

Yeah it’s unfortunate that my parents are so lazy. They’ve worked hard their entire lives and feel entitled because of it. You live and you learn! I’ve learned a lot about what I want from what I don’t like about them lol

In this case it's not about the word, but that OP incorrectly used renting in the title while agreeing that it's borrowing.

They won't grow back.

Paying money at a cemetery.. Wow

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It's sad they need to but it's nice that they used the coin deposit mechanism. Then again it would be nicer if they properly took care of the area.

Where in the comment does it even mention the US

Ours just has empty milk jugs on ropes draped around the spigots. Just put it back. No fee.

they don't return the shopping carts though, why do grocery stores in Germany need a deposit then if everyone likes following rules there

that's because carts need a deposit and there is a reason they need a deposit, because the people are also lazy in Europe

"Quite telling about the Dutch"

This is in Belgium.

I guess you have to buy their water to put in the watering can! Hell, why don't they just charge and entrance fee when you pull in while they're at it?!?

And how much is the water ?

Maybe. That sign is in Dutch though.

They speak dutch in most of Belgium

Because it was a joke about the Germans supposed love of rules and rule following. It's almost like it can be acceptable for one European national to joke about the habits of other European nationals.

Reeeeeeeeeaaaaaalllyyyyy. Mind blowing.

Yeah, and I can't change it. I realized a second after pressing submit. Me responding with 'Exactly' was my way of confirming I know of said error

Cemetery is such a waste of space.

I bought one for my dads place in the cemetery and put it on his place, when I’m back after 2 weeks it was gone. Then I bought another one and wrote our surname on it. After 2 weeks again it was gone :/

In my town in italy they are free, but an old mean lady will haunt you down if you don’t return them

The American cemetery my dad is buried in has freely available watering cans, no deposit required.

Its probably not about stealing, but people would just leave them all over the place. This system encourages people to put them back in the central spot.

I'm fairly certain Zombies grow naturally, so I fail to see the point in this.

Yea well your other comment seems doomed to Reddit downvote hell. Once the hive mind starts spinning at full effect it’s almost impossible to reverse, it feeds on the insecurities of the next redditor and becomes stronger with each click.

How many redditors does it take to figure out the reason for a deposit on watering cans in a cemetery?

I up voted you op fuck the hive

but the spout contains bisphenol-A

It's not paying. You just put a coin in to unlock it and you get it back when you put it back in its place.

I've watered the dead, they never grow back

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