Formerly known as eggs
 

Okay, this happened to me, um, about five minutes ago. I've been carrying groceries up and down stairs for years now, and the stairs in question for about 20. This time however, the bag ripped, and fell from my hand. I wasn't carrying it "properly", and though I've lost my grip before, I've never actually dropped them to the ground like that. Accordingly, Murphy's law required that the bag in question contain eggs, a fact that became obvous as it lay sideways on the floor, oozing a mix of clear and yellow slime. :)

There are two questions to this post. One, how often have you dropped a bag of groceries, for whatever reason. The second question, how often has it contained eggs, or some other impact sensitive item?

Rough estimate: Twenty years @ about 2-3 weeks per egg trip (I do quite a bit of "from scratch" cooking) = One out of about 400 trips = 0.0025 = 0.25% failure rate

BTW, 7 out of 18 eggs survived, and considering the impact, that's pretty impressive, as they're only packed in styrofoam that's about half as thick as when egg cartons first began to be made with it.

Looks like omelets tonight. :D

lol, i read this thinking it had something to do w/ the linux equivelent to windows easter eggs. ha on me.

omelets sound just fine.

never actually dropped groceries myself...but it always seems that when the trash bag breaks its the 1 out of 30 times that it smells bad

Never dropped eggs, but something worse....

I've dropped bottles, glass cases, and once, a music system that I was inspecting (argggg...)