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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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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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.
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I disagree with most of those. Lawful neutral is evil for example, as it imbalances the carton away from the hinge.
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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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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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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.
Huh... I do this too. I like the box to be balanced when I take it outta the fridge.
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
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Eggs all over the floor! Especially if the carton is also not quite hooked shut, or slightly creased.
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 😅
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There's another way to egg?
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.
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Balance is everything, I don't want the carton to flip on me cause the eggs are placed randomly
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 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 that all the time. The eggs MUST BE balanced.
I do also balance the carton. Not always absolute symmetry but don't want someone to drop them.
And if you are left with a prime number of eggs?
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.
This is why eggs should be sold in packs of 15
This is the way!
How are you going to rearrange the eggs when you take out the next egg?
you take out another egg
Start from the corners one at a time.
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
T'was the tism m'lord
I usually create checkered patterns to keep a consistent weight balance and keep box strength strength against external force evenly spread.
I kind of have both, just learn to enjoy the beauty of symmetry.
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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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.
OMG, I do this too!
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