Why do people look in the fridge repeatedly even after we have looked millions of times before?

Here’s some possible answers:

http://www.fluther.com/disc/58346/why-do-people-constantly-return-to-the-refrigerator-with-hopes-that/

Because things happen in it when we are not looking.

My father used to do this in an attempt to satisfy some nameless craving: “I know I want something, but I don’t know what it is.” I sometimes look for inspiration: “Maybe an idea for dinner will present itself if I look once more.” (And sometimes it does!)

Also that is the place to look for your glasses, your car keys, your wallet, your $20 bill, your vibrator…

Hope

Hope springs eternal?
Short term memory failure?

Because I believe in magic.

Hoping something will appear that was not there before. Or, taking a second and third look at something that might look better after a first look.

To ensure the little people that turn the light on and off aren’t mooching my food. They have already been warned once!

Optimism. If there wasn’t anything tasty in there before, maybe the food elves have stashed something in there when I wasn’t looking.

I once found my cat in the fridge. He knew how to open the door and got so engrossed in the cold cuts that he let the door shut behind him.

@Jeruba: Vibrator in the frizzer? Are you serious (and Jeruba-like)?

Because if nothing magically appears, sometimes after the fifth or sixth look, you’re actually hungry enough that a squirt of mustard is better than nothing.

Ha ha, @ratboy. Check my link. Seriously.

Because we’re a pack of morons?!

haha LMFAO…...

I do that all the time.

Because we’re bored and food entertains.

Most of the time I do just to check the bulb is still working…....

It’s one of the cornerstones of life. Hungry, look in the fridge, nothing to eat, even more hungry, look again.