20th
More things - Ketchup cups
I enjoyed the Seven Things meme so much, I’ve decided to continue sharing my oddities with all of you. They’ll probably come one at a time instead of all together.
So, for today, I give you:
I never use the top ketchup cup.
You know when you go to a fast food place and they’ve got those giant ketchup pumps that are always empty - and there’s those giant towers of ridiculously tiny paper cups? You gently push the plunger, hoping for a thick and steady stream of ketchup, but instead you get a farting sound and what appears to be heavy flow from the PMSing badger that’s trapped inside the pump. Frustrated, you furiously jam on the plunger until you’ve managed to coat the inner walls of the ketchup cup with hardly enough condiment to paint your finger nails, let alone dip two pounds of fried potatoes into.
Yeah, you know.
In keeping with my strange OCD tendencies, I always stack up the cups that have been abandoned around the “cup castle.” (You like that name? I made it up) But then, when it’s time for me to choose a cup to use (or 9… I like ketchup), I always remove the top cup from the lowest tower, place it on top of an adjacent tower, and select the next cup down on the tower from which I originally removed a cup. Are you confused? You should be.
Basically, my inner-rationale goes something like this: if the person who was at the station before me also stacked up a bunch of abandoned cups, then it’s possible he or she stuck their grimy little booger fingers inside some of these cups, and if that were the case and they did stack up a bunch of extra cups, odds are that whichever tower was the highest is the tower that was the beneficiary of said extraneous cups. Therefore, the lowest tower should always have the cleanest cups. I always remove the top cup from that tower, just in case.
@CarHaulsPickLaw once pointed out the fatal flaw in my theory - that what if I had it backwards and the tallest tower was always the cleanest - and I’ll never forgive him for bringing it up.
Really though, what is up with those tiny cups? Can’t we just get cups that are three times the size? I understand the logic that not everyone wants a potfull of ketchup so they put small cups out, but couldn’t those people just use big cups but not fill them up all the way?
Go ahead, tell me I’m crazy.
