on a more serious note.....
I have some OCD-like behaviours, like timing my blinking to coincide with passing lampposts if I'm a passenger in a car

I will also freely admit I can't "shop" from the front in a supermarket - this I have now managed to infect my gf with who now ALSO has to shop from the back. For the relatively normal folk lurking out there who don't understand, I shall explain.

When you're shopping in a supermarket and you're looking at that bottle of balti sauce, I can't take the front one, I need to go to the one behind. This is entirely normal for cardboard boxed items such as cereal where the front pack is always damaged, so you need to seek out further packs from the back with that mint condition quality.

However.... and this is an issue for me - when it's the ONLY one left, and it's decent looking (i.e. not been bashed to bits or opened) then it becomes such a decision, even Harvey Dent would think twice before flipping a coin to decide what to do.

I've also had the awkward times where you're almost following or being followed by the same person around Tesco, so after a few aisles of my behaviour, I've then noticed said other person doing the same thing and reaching behind or copying my tactic of REMOVING the front item, picking one up from the back, and replacing the front item for some other mug to pick up!

I've also taken to trying to confuse people if they're watching me, by picking up the front item and the one behind, "weighing" them both in my hands before putting the front one back. Again, I have managed to get other folk to try this after a few repeated displays of my money-saving skills of managing to decide the heavier item, thereby giving me more for my money!

I need a fucking life!!!
(Anne Frank started to build a loft conversion on, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 19:35, 2 replies)

I shop from the back too
that way you get the one with the longest shelf life.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 20:36, closed)

I love the fake weighing
I'm going to start doing that - its just the sort of thing that I like to do to my observers.
(karnuvap, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 11:04, closed)