# A Consumer WTF Moment **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2005, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210 "2005-04-20T11:35:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoneyKingofNowhere)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/21 "2005-04-20T20:51:12Z")
There’s probably nothing too this, but my roomate bought a container of Glass Wipes, and the way the product is labeled can make you do a doulbe take. It’s a spherical container, and the word WIPES is underneath GLASS, beginning directly underneath the letter A in GLASS, as in: GLASS WIPES So when he put them on top of the fridge the container was turned so that the GL wasn’t visible and all I saw was: ASS WIPES Intentional? Who knows, but at the time, made me say, WTF??? ---
**Author:** ![TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoneyKingofNowhere)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/22 "2005-04-20T20:53:41Z")
OK, that first example ^ didn’t work, but you know what I’m sayin’ ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/23 "2005-04-20T20:58:56Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > I don’t know about others, but I certainly don’t need instructions. The Bears at Southern Decadence need some instruction, though. P.S. How’d I miss out on the info that you’re a bear? ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/24 "2005-04-20T21:28:05Z")
Who is wiping? Oh my God, _bear_ is wiping! How can this be? ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/25 "2005-04-20T21:45:45Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > Who is wiping? Oh my God, _bear_ is wiping! How can this be? We find in favor of … _BIG AMERICAN PARTY!_ ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/26 "2005-04-21T03:18:34Z")
> [@jk1245 {bolding mine}](#): > > My 2-pack of pop-tarts has directions on them. Not only that, but it has microwave directions too. **3 seconds** (I kid you not) on high. For those mornings when you just can’t spare the 60 seconds needed to toast them. Do you mean _thirty_ seconds? Because it takes mine ten or fifteen seconds just to make refrigerated butter soft enough to spread. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/27 "2005-04-21T03:42:23Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Perhaps it’s “Tupper-wear.” > > That might not be a bad idea. That way, if your SO wonders about that sound that came out of your pants, you can tell them, “No, I was just burping the seal on my shorts.” Snap quiz: name the activity in which one burps the seal on one’s skirt. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/28 "2005-04-21T03:48:16Z")
> [@The Sonoran Lizard King](#): > > The instruction must be for the cat. > > Once they can open their own food, they will do away with us. Nah. They still need someone to clean the litter boxes! (Bookkeeper - Servant to 5 cats) ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/29 "2005-04-21T04:21:36Z")
Well I dont know about you all but one of the finest pleasures in life is a new pair of socks or underwear. If you open the package and toss the new items in with all the old underwear it ruines the newness. A nice ziplocked bag of fresh underwear in the drawer extends that fresh feeling and if you really wanted to you could save some for weeks or months and save the special feeling for a special day without the old stuff tainting it. Mind you I almost never buy new underwear or socks and if I did even if it was in a resealable pack I would just shove the whole pack in my drawer or just leave it around after I tore into it bypassing the reclosable seal. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/30 "2005-04-21T06:37:30Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > The dog has figured out how to open cat food cans left in a sack on the floor. > The cat can open kitchen cabinets. > If they form some sort of agreement, I’m screwed. This is precisely what our pets did. The cat opened the cabinets and the dog would pry the plastic lids off the cat food cans. They’d share the food. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/31 "2005-04-21T07:25:03Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > The Bears at Southern Decadence need some instruction, though. > > P.S. How’d I miss out on the info that you’re a bear? I don’t know. You can see some G-rated photos [here](http://photobucket.com/albums/v321/theygoboom13/), but you can’t see the dense, lush forests of chest hair (and saplings of back hair). 😛 I’d lean more towards cub, given that I’m 18 and my hair isn’t finished growing in yet. I can grow really good-looking sideburns, and I can span them using the hair _under_ my chin, but God himself forbids that I get one hair on my chin or moustache. I’m bitter. (Actually, it isn’t that bad. I just look like the 10th grader who’s desperately trying to grow a beard when I don’t shave it.) Southern Decadence = bear run? Never been to one, mainly because I haven’t researched when/where they are. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/32 "2005-04-21T07:40:20Z")
I’ve bought knickers which have their very own little hangers. I must be the most sluttish wench in the southern hemisphere, though, because I don’t hang mine up; I toss 'em in the top drawer. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/33 "2005-04-21T16:08:24Z")
Hoo boy. The underwear thing reminded me of my own similar wtf moment. Years ago I worked at a Michaels art supply store. We used to get loads and load of those little terracotta clay pots, which were usually padded with newspaper to keep them from breaking during transport. One day I was opening up a box of them, and saw that they were padded with the usual newspaper - _plus_ a pair each of filthy dirty men’s and women’s underwear, tied together, sitting right on top. I didn’t want to know why then, and I still don’t now. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/34 "2005-04-21T17:34:19Z")
I microwave my pop tarts for 30 seconds. Once I must have hit the 3 or 0 twice, that thing could have been used as a paving stone. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/35 "2005-04-21T20:20:22Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > So you _want_ your underwear to go stale? That’s just disturbing! 😃 Sure make “Eat my shorts” less appealing. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/36 "2005-04-21T20:26:22Z")
I can never quite understand why sometimes put instore baked bread in hyper-destructable packaging. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/37 "2005-04-21T20:40:49Z")
I recently bought some dog bones that had directions on them…FOR THE DOG! The bones were curved at the end (sorta forming an “L”) and the directions showed the dog how to put his paw on the curved part the rest of the bone will flip up to make it easier to chew on. I showed my dogs the package, but they both ate the curvy part off first anyways. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/38 "2005-04-21T21:27:28Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Snap quiz: name the activity in which one burps the seal on one’s skirt. Hovercraft operation? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/39 "2005-04-21T21:43:45Z")
> [@Joey P](#): > > I recently bought some dog bones that had directions on them…FOR THE DOG! See? And you guys thought I was _joking_ about those TP instructions for bears! ---
**Author:** ![Omphaloskeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bcef8e/32.png) [@Omphaloskeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omphaloskeptic)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210/40 "2005-04-21T22:08:50Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > > [@Muffin](#): > > > > Snap quiz: name the activity in which one burps the seal on one’s skirt. > > Hovercraft operation? Well, yes, but only if it’s full of eels. Actually, I’d guess kayaking. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-consumer-wtf-moment/300210.md?page=3)