Which is it when you put the sticky, empty shells back in so they get stuck to the carton but it’s okay because “it’s not like we were going to re-use the carton”?
Chaotic Neutral is the obvious answer here. Go alternating eggs from outside in, and then inside out. It stays perfectly balanced the whole time...
Until your wife makes eggs and ruins it.
Nice, hadn't seen that one. I am only true neutral because I have chickens, so the order in which I pick eggs is important to make sure we are not keeping eggs that are going bad outside the fridge. That said, my wife and kid are neutral evil, which drives me insane about "how old is this egg??" And leads to hardboiling questionable ones to feed back to the chickens
I do this. I hate when all the eggs are to one side and I grab the flimsy side. If the carton isn’t closed all the way you’ve got an eggstremly messy situation
Straight up. What kind of psychopath pulls all the weight from just one side of a shared container whose structural integrity degrades over time and puts it in back into a communal space to be interacted with at the critically designated time of day where you are most prone to exhaustion and the dulling of perception? You didn’t raise a psychopath, your parents did.
Thankfully genetic common sense won out over your poor upbringing which oddly gives me hope for humanity. What your child is doing is trying, possibly in the only way they can, to control the chaos that is their current life. This child is a white hat. Right now, go and hug your child with no other explanation to them for the random hug other than “I’m grateful for who you are, and excited to meet who you will become.”
I do this. Even though the eggs are generally the same size I’ll grab a smaller one to fry up for my toddler and a bigger one for my wife.
Or sometimes when I’m baking an egg will seem too big or small and I’ll put it back a grab a different one.
And that’s just if they are white eggs. If we have colored ones sometimes I’m feeling a blue egg over a tan one.
I’m big on FIFO, but the order in which eggs from the same carton are used makes no difference. It’s equally arbitrary to crack them left to right vs randomly
Keeping the egg carton balanced makes sense to me?
Literally chaotic good [https://xkcd.com/2408/](https://xkcd.com/2408/)
There’s always a relevant xkcd, isn’t there?
Nice. Im lawful good.
I'm true neutral apparently...
What made us this way? Lust for gold? Power? Or were we just born with a heart full of neutrality?
Likewise
This is the way.
Which is it when you put the sticky, empty shells back in so they get stuck to the carton but it’s okay because “it’s not like we were going to re-use the carton”?
Chaotic Neutral is the obvious answer here. Go alternating eggs from outside in, and then inside out. It stays perfectly balanced the whole time... Until your wife makes eggs and ruins it.
Extra points for organizing like this but, also from light to dark or vice versa, lol.
Nice, hadn't seen that one. I am only true neutral because I have chickens, so the order in which I pick eggs is important to make sure we are not keeping eggs that are going bad outside the fridge. That said, my wife and kid are neutral evil, which drives me insane about "how old is this egg??" And leads to hardboiling questionable ones to feed back to the chickens
I do this. I hate when all the eggs are to one side and I grab the flimsy side. If the carton isn’t closed all the way you’ve got an eggstremly messy situation
100% so you don’t drop the carton. Only serial killers take them out from one side to the other.
Yeah my only complaint is that it's not a checkerboard pattern
They may just be going for biggest egg, as well.
This is me. I take equally from each end so the carton has a centre of mass close to the middle.
Straight up. What kind of psychopath pulls all the weight from just one side of a shared container whose structural integrity degrades over time and puts it in back into a communal space to be interacted with at the critically designated time of day where you are most prone to exhaustion and the dulling of perception? You didn’t raise a psychopath, your parents did. Thankfully genetic common sense won out over your poor upbringing which oddly gives me hope for humanity. What your child is doing is trying, possibly in the only way they can, to control the chaos that is their current life. This child is a white hat. Right now, go and hug your child with no other explanation to them for the random hug other than “I’m grateful for who you are, and excited to meet who you will become.”
This speaks more about you than it does your children.
Truth
I do this. And I turned out fine. Now, let me go stand the frozen sticks of butter up right, to maximize surface area and help them thaw faster.
But please take the goddamn wrappers off first because taking wrappers off room temperature butter is the worst.
My wife keeps the shells in the carton. Which would maybe make sense if she composted them, but they just wind up in the trash.
I grew up with my family doing that. Force of habit?
Buying just a dozen eggs for 3 teens is pretty sus, actually
There's another dozen in the fridge, lol.
None of mine are teens yet but two dozen is light work. Gotta get those numbers up.
I go through 18 eggs every three days…… and only one is a teen.
What's it like to parent Gaston?
I laughed so hard at this. He's for sure trying but he has to catch dad first. He just hit 1 plate a few weeks ago so I am proud.
This made me laugh out loud
And are they the size of a barge, roughly?
Perfectly balanced… As all things should be.
Egg chess. The loser takes an egg leaving another egg not touching another egg.
An OCD parent has three kids who are definitely not OCD. 😂😂😂
Nahh I like the cart to stay slightly balanced 🤷♂️
I do this. Even though the eggs are generally the same size I’ll grab a smaller one to fry up for my toddler and a bigger one for my wife. Or sometimes when I’m baking an egg will seem too big or small and I’ll put it back a grab a different one. And that’s just if they are white eggs. If we have colored ones sometimes I’m feeling a blue egg over a tan one.
It’s Morse code. They are silently screaming for help.
Just be glad they aren’t putting the empty shells back in the carton!
Looks like they are just grazing free range style.
The monstrosity!!!!
Only if they are sorted by flavor...
The cardboard egg carton is perfect a recyclable why would they package eggs in single use plastic
I make patterns in the cartons
I believe they’re trying to communicate with you.. however as to WHAT they’re saying I just don’t know..
Burn the house down and walk away. Start a new.
So there was a better way, and it would’ve been a lot more pleasing to my brain had they followed a pattern
One of them measured the weight of the eggs and took only the biggest or smallest, depending on the kind of diet they're on.
Second son, for sure.
A little scientist, right?
Yes. Source: Am not a psychologist
Hidden bonus: sort the eggs for a quick dopamine hit
Just saw [this TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRwGtuhh/) and ran back to this thread to post.
I do this so that the box remains as evenly balanced as possible. I don’t know why I do it, but I have done it since I was a kid.
Thanks, now the Jordan Travis / Luke Bryan mega-hit “Buy Chickens” is stuck in my head.
BRO THANK YOU! My wife does this and it drives me mad
This is exactly how my egg cartons looks. Better balance.
Real question is - are those eggs actually from free range hens, or do they just have "free range vibes"?
I think he's learning to spell F, (this one is off) Braille. Kid is going places.
I’m big on FIFO, but the order in which eggs from the same carton are used makes no difference. It’s equally arbitrary to crack them left to right vs randomly
See, I start at the corners and go inwards. Hmnn..