On 2021-02-12 4:45 p.m., Leo wrote:
> I was behind a middle aged woman at the egg section of my market
> today. She wasn´t aware of me standing about eight feet away. I think
> she thought she was alone. She picked up a a carton of eggs, opened
> it and sorted through. Good idea! There are often broken eggs in
> cartons as we all know. She opened another carton, picked out an egg
> and replaced what I thought was the broken one. That´s OK too. Then
> she opened another carton and picked out a couple of eggs, replacing
> them with other eggs in her original carton. She was replacing
> perfectly good eggs with others that she liked better. Then she
> toodled off. Is that normal behavior?
>
>


That sounds pretty weird. Maybe she has some sort of OCD. I usually
open up egg cartons to check for cracked and broken. I would be
impressed if she was switching eggs around to get a dozen good eggs and
putting all the bad ones together in another carton. What she was doing
was just plain weird, and it's not a good idea to be handling a foods
that other people may be consuming.


I was in the grocery store a week or two ago and needed eggs. There was
a woman parked in front of it opening just about every carton to examone
the eggs. I kept back, socially distanced, and waiting almost patiently,
but losing my patience. After several minutes she acknowledged my
presence, smiled and moved away and told me all of the cartons had
broken eggs. I reached for one she had not mauled, opened it up, so no
problem and moved on.

On 2/12/2021 7:33 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2021-02-12 4:45 p.m., Leo wrote:
>> I was behind a middle aged woman at the egg section of my market
>> today. She wasn´t aware of me standing about eight feet away. I think
>> she thought she was alone. She picked up a a carton of eggs, opened
>> it and sorted through. Good idea! There are often broken eggs in
>> cartons as we all know. She opened another carton, picked out an egg
>> and replaced what I thought was the broken one. That´s OK too. Then
>> she opened another carton and picked out a couple of eggs, replacing
>> them with other eggs in her original carton. She was replacing
>> perfectly good eggs with others that she liked better. Then she
>> toodled off. Is that normal behavior?
>
>
> Â*That sounds pretty weird. Maybe she has some sort of OCD.Â* I usually
> open up egg cartons to check for cracked and broken. I would be
> impressed if she was switching eggs around to get a dozen good eggs and
> putting all the bad ones together in another carton.

I'd be impressed by that, too. How could she tell by looking which were
good eggs vs. bad eggs? I had the thought she might be switching
slightly larger eggs from the other cartons to her carton. Bigger eggs,
same price. I also think it was funny she thought there was no one
(Leo) noticing what she was doing. Or maybe she just didn't care.

>What she was doing
> was just plain weird, and it's not a good idea to be handling a foods
> that other people may be consuming.
>
True, but one thing about eggs, people don't eat the shells or even
touch them for very long. If you're a fan of boiled eggs, boiling
should take care of that issue. If you're really paranoid about someone
having touched the eggs you can always wash them when you bring them
home before you put them in the fridge.

Jill