I agree, those things are stupidly difficult to open. But unless you’re a frequent flier or work somewhere with a metal detector at the entrance, I can’t think of any reason not to carry a Leatherman Micra on your keychain for just this kind of crisis. And maybe a larger multi-tool in the trunk for random pliers-related emergencies.
Of course, this is one of those areas in which various people fall on various sides of the bell curve – some folks like to have their trunks in a “just bought the car” state of pristine emptiness, while I tend to keep mine in “could probably jump start civilization based on all the random useful stuff in the back” condition.
Excellent rant. Picture me crawling along the hotel floor in a foreign country, trying to mime “scissors” to the startled and clueless cleaning person.
I fully agree. Loperamide and benadryl are both horrible for this.
Fwiw, both drugs can be used recreationally. So maybe that is partly why they do this? To make it hard to get the drugs out to abuse.
But since you can buy a bottle that is much more convenient with more pills, if the goal is to prevent abuse its pretty absurd. The people who will abuse these are going to buy the bottle of 100, not the blister packs.
With benadryl, half the time the pill would crumble or break before I got it out of the blister pack.
It’s actually a site for disseminating information about preventing, diagnosing and treating infections with Clostridium difficile (a leading cause of pseudomembranous colitis, a nasty diarrheic disease).
Apparently someone thinks the cute approach (“poology”? c’mon) will work with health care providers.*
*one webinar is actually titled “If It Wasn’t So “difficile”, It Would be Easy”.
