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This is a real thing I do. It feels weird if the weight of the carton isn’t evenly balanced when I take it from the fridge.
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I always take them out symmetrically and front row first, if possible.
You try to take the egg carton out of the fridge and it’s unbalanced ONE TIME…
The problem now is living with someone who doesn’t do this and then you expect it to be balanced because you take the time and effort to be precise as a show of appreciation for the others around you so they don’t befall the same fate that YOU now must suffer as you discover the eggs are now unbalanced and they spill all over the floor, because they didn’t happen to hyper focus these exact thoughts and how could they be so inconsiderate after you put in so much effort to focus on this to prevent this exact situation
Bro life is too exhausting wtf
Eggs all over the floor! Especially if the carton is also not quite hooked shut, or slightly creased.
YOU’RE A GENIUS ! I take eggs out starting by one end and it always feels super weird to have an unbalanced carton, I’ll have to try your method.
I do also balance the carton. Not always absolute symmetry but don’t want someone to drop them.
I do this and I am not austic.
I might have picked it up from this guy.
Yeah, this is a common sense thing. If you don’t balance the mass the next time you pull it out of the fridge there’s a good chance the imbalance causes the carton to twist or to bang it on something on the way out.
I’m not autistic or OCD, and I do this too. It’s just common sense and mildly entertaining.
Is he Adrian Monk’s cousin?
Chaotic good here.
Yep, I’m an Autist.
… Also had a mom with pretty severe OCD, so I always remember that ‘good enough is good enough’, in scenarios like this.
EDIT:
… Also also, I find the lawful evil solution to be utterly diabolical and actually makes me angry just being exposed to it conceptually… which I guess does make sense, opposite sections of the chart.
According to this I am chaotic neutral, not sure what that means? I aim to balance the weight evenly, when pulling out of the fridge, the carton stays level.
I use Lawful Good for the same reason. Both keep the center of weight in the middle, but your method is more evenly distributed.
I’m chaotic good. Balanced haphazardly and without order.
There is always a relevant xkcd.
My wife insists on true neutral and I can’t think of a worse way of doing it. I try to counterbalance with lawful good whenever I have eggs, bit I’m always playing catch up…
I disagree with most of those. Lawful neutral is evil for example, as it imbalances the carton away from the hinge.
Knowing Randall, I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually got his own DnD group, or conducted some sort of poll, where he actually asked people already in certain alignment categories to describe their own egg carton balancing patterns… or lack thereof.
That would come closer to the actual alignments self representing…
But also I have no idea, this is just my head canon now rofl.
Per this example I’m lawful good
TIL I’m true neutral. Always thought I was chaotic good.
it’s just sensible. if you take from one end, you run the risk of unexpectedly grabbing the ‘light end’ and accidentally dropping the partial carton on the floor next time you take it out of the fridge.
Bam. Right here. It’s all about that weight distribution, simple as. First time I grabbed a carton by the light end, my stomach dropped. Not having that, no way.
So always put the heavy (short, not long) end facing the door, so you always grab the heavy end, and never have this problem.
This is why I do it. It’s not necessarily symmetrical, just roughly even weight distribution to prevent a heavy side.
Ngl I’m too lazy to do this and just take eggs out from right to left. I always put the carton back in the fridge the same way so the weight is always on the end I grab.
Are you a lefty? (Left-handed, I assume you’re politically Left because you’re here)
Lol nah I’m right handed. But to get the geometry right, my fridge is on the right side of the kitchen, and the door hinge is on the right. So the eggs stay on the left side of the fridge closest to the rest of the kitchen counter tops. So the carton comes out and goes back in the same orientation using my right hand. Meaning I’m always grabbing the heavy side with the eggs.
I’m still careful anytime I’m grabbing the carton just in case, but so far no dropped eggs in the house
I think with this carton you can get a weight-balanced arrangement for any number of eggs except one and seventeen. So whatever you do at the start and end of the carton, it better involve at least two eggs
When it must be inbalanced due to the number of eggs, as long as the extra weight is towards the hinge then it retains the safety benefits of being balanced.
Since I get eggs while holding the carton I tend to take from the ‘outside’ row first, starting at the ends, and work my way into the center by the hinge. This puts the weight in the hand I’m using to hold the carton and works well even for 18 and 24 count cartons. If I set the carton down before yoinking eggs, I would go for more balance.
I remember my sister dropping the last of the eggs casue one side was heavy. She was so upset.
Why do this.
I’m positive there is a correlation between ocd and autism. This seems like it’s hinting at a more ocd thing. Still it’s not entirely irrational itself.
Apparently seating on aircraft is allocated similarly.
Cool. Now if you were to stack these eggs in 3D, would you create an hcp or an fcc lattice?
It makes the carton easier to handle and less likely to tear and drop.
