I’m not sure if Aldi operates the same way across the globe, but here in Australia, it’s always this frantic packing process as the sales assist speedily scans items and flings them to the modestly sized ‘non-packing’ bench for you to pack on the go.  I use the word ‘non-packing’ bench deliberately, as it’s not a packing bench – The Aldi preference is that you place all your groceries back into the trolley and then wheel over the ‘proper’ packing benches and take your time to properly pack. However, I can’t stand the notion of double handling; so I subject myself to this hurtling of groceries and hope for the best – sometimes you win, sometimes you lose 🙂

Tell me of your shopping experience. Is it just me?

Let’s end with a bit of mandatory and possibly useless Tetris trivia…

Did you know that:

• All Tetris pieces are polyominoes (a plane geometric figure formed by joining one or more equal squares edge to edge). In Tetris, they specifically are tetrominos as each shape is made from four squares
• The game was named by the Russian game designer – tetra from the Greek numerical prefix to represent the four squares and tennis, his favourite sport. He could have been super dorky and called it Tetrominis, but thankfully simplicity ruled
• All seven Teris shapes were given a name (Heck, why not? After you’ve named the game, you might as well not stop and name the pieces as well, right?). Ready for it?
• Teewee – the ‘T’ shaped piece, or the bag on green beans in the cartoon above – I guess, a bit of an obvious name to warm us up to the other names ahead.
• Smashboy – the square piece, or the bag of chips and T-paper above – OK, a kind of cool sounding name for a game.
• Hero – the long piece, or the final orange juice bottle that lost the game for us – I sort of get this name – if you manage to land it beautifully without wasting space, then you could consider yourself a bit of a hero.
• Orange Ricky – the L shaped piece, or carrots – Well, OK – the Nintendo game version is orange, but what’s with Ricky? How about Orange Lucky to highlight the ‘L’?
• Blue Ricky – this is the mirror image of Orange Ricky. It is dark blue, I guess.
• Cleveland Z – the funny Z shape, or the tri-colour pack of peppers. Nup – don’t get this one at all – Z yes, Cleveland Nup
• Rhode Island Z – Yep, another mirror image, so it looks like a S. Mmmmmmmmm??? No idea.