One of my tasks at the supermarket where I work involves doing something called 'prezo', which essentially is bringing old stock to the front display, and clearing out bad / damaged goods from the aisles. Its quite an easy really, just that it takes really long to do. Its quite common to find a product in the wrong shelf at times, cuz sometimes customers just leave it there. Now there's been something funny happening here, and I really want to get to the bottom of it....

I run through 'prezo' about thrice a week, and every single time, irrespective of which section / department I work in, I'll always find a bottle of 'Patak's Vindaloo Simmer Sauce' misplaced in one of the shelves!! (For those who are wondering what Vindaloo is, read this). Now this one bottle has so far been located by me in the fresh foods section, the natural health section, the beauty and cosmetics section & the canned food's section. In other words, wherever I do prezo, I always find a bottle, which I then pick up and move back to the Indian food's section. For the first couple of times this happened I thought it was mere coincidence, but this is just happening too many times now! I've been trying to formulate as to why this keeps happening. So far i've come up with the following

• A customer is playing an extremely good prank week after week
• The vindaloo bottle is intimidated when placed with other Indian food's and looks to relocate itself amongst more pleasant surroundings
• There are couple of mutant rats loose in the store from a failed scientific experiment, who have an affinity for Indian food, and are looking for means to open the bottle
• The bottle is supposed to conatain a secret message for the secret service and I always manage to relocate it, causing chaos in the department (No wonder the Iraq war is still on!)
• My boss places the bottle in the shelves where I am to work before I arrive to that after I'm done & the bottle isn't there, he knows i've done my work properly
• I've gone completely crazy and have a good imagination..

So that's my list of probably suspects. Its happened just too many times & I'm bugged now. I'll try to put some sort of a mark on the bottle next time to see if it's the same bottle that keeps popping up everywhere. I'm not really too sure how that'll help solve anything, but it'll give myself something to do and think about for a week! I must also add that I did find a packet of Sherwan's Indian Butter Chicken Masala alongside the bottle once....hmmm....

As an end note, I've seriously gotta stop watching so many mystery / crime / fiction related movies!