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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      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.

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          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.

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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.

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        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?

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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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        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.

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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.

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        1 month ago

        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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      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.

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    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

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    It makes the carton easier to handle and less likely to tear and drop.

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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.

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    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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