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- autism@lemmy.world
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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Balance is everything, I don’t want the carton to flip on me cause the eggs are placed randomly
There’s another way to egg?
not autistic but I picked up a very unbalanced egg carton once and realized we shouldn’t have unbalanced egg cartons. it’s just sensible.
I do this too for weight distribution, but I don’t make sure it’s symmetrical. I’m worried someone in my family will be surprised by the uneven weight of the carton when they pull it off the shelf and drop it.
I kind of have both, just learn to enjoy the beauty of symmetry.
Huh… I do this too. I like the box to be balanced when I take it outta the fridge.
now kick your egg balancing autism into high gear to start balancing electrons on atoms to discover new elements.
or balance the number of molecules to create a new type of crystal that cures cancer.
or…you get the picture.
They clearly don’t get any other picture. No one balances eggs… EVER
I balance eggs…
I do this because the weight distribution is even so i don’t drop the carton when grabbing it out of the fridge again
Or you just put the heavy end facing the door of the refrigerator so you always are picking up the heavy end and not the empty end. It should be that way anyways if you’re putting the eggs in the fridge because you’d also want to be holding the stable end of the carton and not the empty side.
But what if all the ends are stable and there is no empty side?
Then you don’t have teenagers that are taking eggs from the carton to make scrambled eggs at 10pm. They happen to put the eggs back in correctly because they need the sturdy side to handle them. I don’t need to teach them fractal patterns to take eggs out.
Lol yeah… I’m sure it was hard enough to get them to do it this way 😅
I used to do it that way but other people in the house dont so I’ve switched to spreading it out
OMG, I do this too!
And if you are left with a prime number of eggs?
This is why eggs should be sold in packs of 15
2 is a prime. I think you meant odd.
Of course, how could I forget about the oddest prime!
Always removed in two, there are. No more. No less.
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.
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.
Did your mom also have a neverending project of slowly removing the old layers of lead paint from the inside of the house by scraping it off a little at a time with a razor blade?
Yeah! Did yours sprinkle the shavings on top of your cereal like mine did, too?
… No?
She had different kinds of cleaning routines/phobias/rituals.
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.
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…
Per this example I’m lawful good
TIL I’m true neutral. Always thought I was chaotic good.
How are you going to rearrange the eggs when you take out the next egg?
you take out another egg
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.
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
I also like to maintain balance in containers as well for just these reasons, but after years of living with people who didn’t share that preference, I learned to lift a container in place, then pull it out. That way I am cognizant of its balance before taking significant risk.
Eggs all over the floor! Especially if the carton is also not quite hooked shut, or slightly creased.
