Trolley Tetris

This isn't a rant, but I think is well worth putting on here to try and inspire more people to do it.

While shopping with my girlfriend last weekend, we took bets on which aisle would we make it to before someone pissed me off. Stef said I wouldn't make it past the magazines (the first aisle, cheeky cow!) and I thought I'd make it to the cereals (about halfway). In actual fact we were both wrong and we made it to dairy (second lastbefore someone did something utterly retarded. It wasn't a serious thing though, and obviously shopping on a Friday evening is a good time to avoid the majority of idiots. There's no prize for this, other than admitting Ultimate Superiority for a few minutes.
In case you're wondering, we shop in reverse order in our supermarket because of the slightly odd layout this Tesco has.

Anyway, that's not the main reason for this post. I'm calling it the Moron Gauntlet now though, because making up games stops me hating the trawls quite so much. On to Trolley Tetris.

As we started our weekly round, I noticed that the few things we had in our trolley already pretty much formed a gapless space across the "bottom" row (closest to me pushing the basket). Being slightly obsessive-compulsive, I moved what there was to fill up the few remaining spaces. That and the fact that the mesh makes up a load of squares made me think of a game of Tetris. And if you don't know Tetris you can Google it right now before I find you and smack you one. I pointed it out to Stef (who knows more games than I give her credit for) and as a result we started messing around with the idea.

She'd place items at the far end of the trolley and I'd move them into the best position I could as fast as possible. See the challenge isn't just finding a space; it's finding a space either before moving to catch her up, or before walking into someone on the way. That rule isn't quite set in stone yet, but I prefer doing it before the move to prevent potential accidents.

The blips and bleeps I was making while I did it, and us singing the Tetris theme in duet is entirely optional.

So I encourage everyone in the world to do this. Not only does it stop me paying as much attention to the retards around me, but it also makes the time in the supermarket (a blatant misnomer) seem shorter.