Odo has absolutely always returned the cart. In fact, I’d say he’s tracked down everyone he can find that hasn’t returned the cart and forced them to return one in front of him.
Nah, Odo believes in rules and order too much to force others to return their cart when there’s no rule saying they need to do so.
He doesn’t like it when people leave their carts in random locations, which is why he leaves his very neatly where it’s not going to be a danger of rolling into a car or the middle of the lot, but he definitely isn’t going to return it himself when it’s someone else’s job to do so.
Yep, and he’d probably return other people’s carts too while grunting about the decay of federation morals and wishing he could put them in the brig for a few hours.
I don’t think he would put other people’s carts away.
He would track them down and make them do it themselves.
While grumbling about the decay of federation morals…
And obviously he put them in the brig while going over all laws and regulations to figure out if he can lock them up. He does that every time. It would be improper not to double check.
While I appreciate the addition, I feel like Weyoun would command Damar to return the cart.
Damar would then drunkenly push it into the cart return and not pick it up when it fell over.
Nah, Bashir would devise a clever plan to everything work out just fine without people returning their carts.
Also, I’m pretty sure you got Garak wrong. He would promise never to return the cart, make a loud point about it for everybody, and insist on the subject every chance he gets. Just to covertly return it when nobody is looking because when Cardassia befriends the supermarket his people would benefit from the carts being correctly parked.
Bashir has no idea how carts end up back at the cart return, and between O’Brien and Garak he isn’t likely to learn.
O’Brien returned his cart, and yours, and was mumbling complaints about lazy people while gathering two more when somebody drove a motorized cart into him and broke his ankle.