Trick with the Invisible Crickets

I went to the pet store today as I was nearly out of crickets and wouldn't have enough till my bulk order of crix show up. They seemed to be out of smalls, but "luckily" (just wait) I found a box of smalls on the top shelf, slightly out of sight. Well, out of sight for people my height anyway. When I got home, I set up a nice tub with gut load and cricket gel (no not gel made out of crickets! These are the water crystal thingies that works really well as a water source), then tipped the crix in. Out popped a few, then a few... a few then no more dropped... and when I say a few, I mean really "few". If I sat there for a good few seconds I could easily have counted how many were in the box. They costed me $6.90. It almost seems like I paid $1.00 for each of them. Total Grrrrr.