Makes shopping more fun!
My friends, let me tell you about one of my greatest joys in life. It is a wondrous way to pass the time. It makes life just that little bit more worth living. And it goes by the name of... Supermarket Tetris.

When you reach the checkout, you've got a lovely long conveyor-belt to load your goods on to. And your shopping is, for the most part, in rectangular packaging. It is up to you, o noble player, to load your items onto the belt in true Tetris style. Baguettes go down the long side, a box of Weetabix fits across there, fill in that gap with a tub of Flora... That's a complete row! SCORE!!

Humming the theme tune and then acting as if nothing is amiss when people look at you only adds to the childish glee.

Try it. You just might like it.

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Other stuff:
- Playing "pull my finger" with my boyfriend
- Demanding piggybacks from said long suffering boyfriend at inopportune moment
- Tongue Jousting with Boyfriend Of Infinite Patience (pretty self-explanatory; poke your tongues out and joust with them, first one to back off is the loser)
- Not stepping on cracks in pavement
- Riding on the top deck of buses and planning my escape route across the roofs of houses for when the zombie apocalypse comes
- Trying to make the water go down the plughole the wrong way
- And much, much more!
(Elegant Lady Vee is not my real name., Tue 22 Sep 2009, 14:03, 10 replies)

I tried that for a while
But stopped when I got home and found that a baguette and half my box of soap powder was missing.
(richardm, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 14:15, closed)

Are you my missus?

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 14:16, closed)

So glad
I'm not the only one!
(Elegant Lady Vee is not my real name., Tue 22 Sep 2009, 14:21, closed)

Riding on the top deck of buses and planning my escape route across the roofs of houses for when the zombie apocalypse comes
Not childish at all.
(langers, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 14:21, closed)

Not tried that one .. .. ..
though we do still play the "hiding condoms in other people's trolley" game.
(manwiddicombe is thinking of something witty to add here, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 14:47, closed)

Love the Tetris game
Try to convince himself to play, but he just won't!

Do you have that moment of internal conflict when the Tetris game leads you to having to put something heavy ontop of something delicate? I break too many eggs that way.
(Penguins_Made_Me_Do_It is a dolt ... and she don't care, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 16:28, closed)

Hahahahaha!
I do this every time I go shopping - except, I work upwards too...

My goal is to get the entire ontents of both my trolleys (we do 'big shops' instead of weeklies..) onto that one bit of conveyor belt...

It nearly worked once, but potatoes, and a couple of packs of bacon gave way, I was nearly killed in an avalanche of tinned food..
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Tue 22 Sep 2009, 16:53, closed)

Such a great idea!
and so simple too. I will do this next time I do a shop.
Thanks!
(Evilweevil is covered in bees, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 9:26, closed)

yay
i thought i was the only one who did this, i since downloaded the tetris music to my phone and have it playing when filling the bags
(amazinglasercow now sporting terawatt mining lasers, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 10:54, closed)

I do this
When packing the fridge...
(The Sausage Tree "Snort...Huh?...Shit", Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:01, closed)