We all do, don't we?
We check for knocks and bruises on papaya, apples, bananas and pears. We scrutinize the boxes of cherries, strawberries, grapes to see if there are any that are turning bad. We press the oranges to feel if they are juicy and if the skin is thick. We hit the watermelon with our hand to hear the sound for water content. We smell the stem of melon for its sweetness. And we not only smell durians, we ask the seller to open them for us to look and press at the flesh to see if they are wet or dry.
Not only that, we choose based on the color and sizes and ask many other things that we feel will help us choose the best ones. We pick the apple that has a glossier skin. We pick the oranges that are bigger. We pour over the boxes of kiwi fruits to find one that we feel are bigger. We study the blueberries skin to see if they look thick.
Watching people buying fruits is interesting. Some take a quick look and choose one after making sure it looks ok. Some take forever.
A lady is buying three boxes of golden kiwi fruit.
There are five kiwi fruits in each box and the weight is indicated on the sticker.
She took them and weighed the boxes individually on the weighing machine.
Is she checking to make sure that she is not being short changed?
Did she open up the boxes on display and pick all the bigger kiwi fruits into the three boxes?
Two siblings were selecting prepacked oranges.
The brother counted two bags to see how many oranges in each bag. One bag has nine oranges and the other has ten. His sister said the one with nine oranges are bigger. They did not check the weight of each bag which they assumed should be the same.