They drink alone?
I have noted a peculiar experience working in such a place as here. Said experience being a lone male purchasing a sample of flavored lube and promptly heading into the arcade.
I am well aware of how daft that sounds and no I am not so naive, if not utterly brainless, as to think that people do not socialize to a greater or lesser extent in the arcade. The store has gloryholes for Bast's sake! If a day passes where folks aren't playing "Early Bird versus the Worm," it's a bleak day for porn. So a random guy wandering back with a small packet/pillow of ostensibly fruit flavored lubricant would seem to be as mysterious as the concept of oral sex. And the majority of the time, the logic is probably spot on.
Except the theory experiences point source failure on a small, but persistent, percentage of such purchases. Given the persistence, these instances cannot statistically be seen as "outliers" to the data set. The specific variable that defies the "common sense" assumption is that with these examples, there is no interaction with others.
What the bloody fuck are these guys doing by themselves with a few milliliters of artificial flavoring and thickened water? It isn't as if they are selecting these sample packs without thought or choice. There are other samples available. Even if they just preferred a specific brand, if it's available here flavored, we also have it without. And yet, they will seek out that one specific subset of single use packages. Some will even seem to linger to debate which taste appeals most at that given moment.
If it's just simple wank facilitation, it shouldn't matter if the medium tastes like 10/30 wt synthetic motor oil or PiƱa Colada. However, since they're deliberately selecting for flavor, this hypothesis seems incorrect.
Perhaps they are buying in expectation of subsequent interaction once in the arcade. However, that would fail to explain the proportion that do not perform a cursory assessment of the current arcade popularity, disdain the glory holes, and otherwise conform to the usual behavior of guys on a mission to quickly rub one out. Thus, at least some of them are apparently not looking for anything beyond a solo performance, which sets this theory aside as well.
Subsequently, this leaves me with two equally viable explanations.
The first is that they get thirsty in the arcade, but not enough to invest in a can of soda, so they indulge in a calorie-free lube shot. If such is the case, then I'm curious why they wouldn't just spring for larger, cheaper-by-the-ounce bottle. Even the most generous pillow is scarcely more than a small swallow. It would by no means slake much of a thirst.
The second is that do-it-yourself "snowballing" has a wider following than many would suppose. As hypotheses go, it does carry a certain elegance of simplicity connecting all the required external elements. Perhaps we should start selling pineapple juice here.
Sometimes my innate curiosity leads down some really odd mental paths.
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Curiosity might be hazardous in your line of work. ;)
What Chris said. Perhaps you really shouldn't let your mind wander *too* far at these times...
Chris - It can be, just as it is in real life. The only difference being that when it goes bad, it gets real bad.
Merrick - I agree, I really shouldn't let my mind wander. On the other hand, in the space of formulating "Why the fuck are they buying that?" in my mind, I have already delineated most of the solutions to the question and any further detail is scarcely going to cause more distress. I'm just glad this all happens at an intellectual remove.
yeah, what in Hades are they doing in there? I want to know. Could you go knock or ask or research this further? Curiosity is killing me. lol
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