Anyway...a little story time...
Here we have a public transport system. To ride a tram, you put money on your transport card or buy an unlimited pass for a period of time. You tap on to a card reader in the tram with your card when you get on the vehicle and you tap off when you disembark and the requisite monies are deducted from your balance if you're not using one of the unlimited passes.
Inspectors roam the network and can fine you if you're traveling on the vehicle without a valid pass (unlimited or a money pass that has been tapped on).
There's a certain type of rider: one who carries a pass with them with a bit of money and doesn't tap on or off. When they're caught by the inspector riding for a while without tapping, they always prostrate loudly and put on a big show: "Oh, I took my seat/forgot, but I swear I was going to tap on, honestly! You can't do this to me!". They do this because they believe they can ride the system for free and just not tap on or off if they think there's no inspectors on board.
Now, I'm not psychic. I don't know. Maybe they really were going to tap on, and maybe they weren't. The point is they're generally a bunch of anti-social tools fucking the system up for everyone by getting on the public transport and not validating their ticket. Their actions are putting everyone else into this inconvenient state of anti-socialness and possible conflict and free-riding because they've initiated an ambiguous event where they've broken the rules. Sure, MAYBE they would actually pay the fare three stops down the line, maybe they forgot, but a civilized person, operating in a society and if they had a conscious choice in the matter, wouldn't do it.
So by analogy, one goes and just starts eating and drinking shit as they're walking through a supermarket that they haven't paid for: "Oh, but I was totally going to pay for it". Well none of us know that, and now you've started the ball rolling on some shit and potential social conflict that was totally needless if you just restrained yourself for a few minutes until after you paid for it and it actually became yours.
Obvious exceptions apply in different cultures or whereby it is culturally understood that this is how that particular form of commerce in that particular society operates (eating a grape in the fresh fruit section is generally acceptable), but either way in the western context, you're signalling that you're too daft to pick up on the polite rules of society, you don't care about them, or you're totally unable to restrain yourself...
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