Friday, February 18, 2005

Soup Can Symmetry

Is it important to anyone else out there that the soup cans on your neighborhood grocery store shelves display some sense of symmetry? I happen to like all the Campbell's soup cans facing the same way, as if at attention. "About face, Cream of Chicken!" If I pull a can or two off the shelf, I feel compelled to pull up another can into the empty spot at the front of the shelf. And then I feel a need to turn the cans on either side until their labels display a symmetry. This of course makes the very corners of my mouth turn slightly to compliment the gleam of satisfaction in my eyes.

Why do I do this?

a: the labels are easier to read when all facing the same way
b: it's a dirty job but someone has to do it
c: there must be a serious control issue here
d: it indicates a highly artistic sensitivity to beauty in symmetry
e: an overexposure to Andy Warhol-isms
f: all of the above
g: ???

I haven't even mentioned the magazine racks at the registers! Don't even get me started!

So... how about you?

O.o

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

g: it just seems right? :)

7:24 AM  
Blogger Dawn Allred said...

gc, absolutely! Aahhhh... I feel better now. ^_^

7:55 AM  

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