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.
I keep the eggs away from the corners, most likely to get damaged imo
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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...
Huh... I do this too. I like the box to be balanced when I take it outta the fridge.
I only buy boxes of 2x2. I suppose the only way is to get all four out at the same time.
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.
I used to do it that way but other people in the house dont so I’ve switched to spreading it out
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.
How are you going to rearrange the eggs when you take out the next egg?
Start from the corners one at a time.
I first heard of this a couple years ago on a reddit post. It had never occurred to me to think that an egg carton should be balanced, or to expect an egg carton to be balanced when I pick it up.
I still don't worry about the balance, but I get it.
I don't even take them out of the same lateral side of the carton, just pick at random
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You'll bring chaos into your house rumba!
I have a teen and a tween, we are at max entropy already
I usually create checkered patterns to keep a consistent weight balance and keep box strength strength against external force evenly spread.
For me I have to take them out in an even number otherwise I will have a feeling that is going to hang onto me until I rectify it ASAP.
Also they must be taken out from one specific side and not the other. The balance must be maintained!
The other day, in another thread about eggs (damn we talk a lot about eggs lately!) someone mentioned a 15 egg pack. WTF is wrong with your countries!! The natural egg set is 12. a dozen! because, 12 is the logical... Because 12 eggs is... Hmmm. we don't have twelve fingers, or toes... Why dafuq do we use dozens? I mean, even decimal months make more sense
EVEN NUMBERS ONLY! 15? Are you fucking kidding me? They come in 6, 12, or 18, or those big 30 squares. EVEN NUMBERS!
Who packs them in odd must suffer the wrath of the gods of the autists!
I do this all the time but for some reason don’t feel compelled to drag the entire internet through my process to make me feel better every time…
Is ADHD supposed to be a social coping mechanism?
This whole sub is just bunch of folks complaining about habits…
Why is this an ADHD thing? Other folks have habits yet spare the world from suffering their internal mechanisms… Is ADHD just forcing others to hear your habits?
I do that all the time. The eggs MUST BE balanced.
So you always have to take a multiple of two eggs? Well it’s unarguably visually pleasing
T'was the tism m'lord
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.
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.
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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.
There is always a relevant xkcd.
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...
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This is the way!
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.
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When I eat grapes, I like to eat two at a time, and end with an even number. I throw away the last grape if it's not an even number. Why? #JustAutieThings.
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.
If your carton can physically do that, then either your carton is paper and not carton, or your eggs have stones inside them.
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I do also balance the carton. Not always absolute symmetry but don't want someone to drop them.
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 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
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.
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