Yep, I don’t like the whole “sir” thing either. Sometimes when a 25 year old guy calls me sir I want to turn around and say, “Shut the hell up, I’ll kick your ass!!”
Get yourself a clean easy-to-open jar of some kind and when you finally manage to pop your Viagra bottle open (even if you have to resort to hacksaws) transfer the pills to the jar. Then stomp the childproof container with your orthapedic shoes and cackle madly.
Whoa! Better watch that cackling. You don’t want to get your heart racing. That could be dangerous for someone your age.
DeadlyAccurate, who is still a 20-something (for a few more months)
Grim, you mistake the intent of the manufacturers.
Their intent is to bolster the self-image of children.
Like this: the adult is having a terrible time trying to get the “:childproof” cap of the bottle.
So the nine-year-old takes it from him or her and deftly opens it.
And, having done something"adult" to help the grownup, he or she feels much better about him/herself.
Problem solved: kid gets ego-boost; adult gets medicine; the protectivist groups insisting on those caps feel like they’ve accomplshed something; and the manufacturer makes money and does its bit towards the raising of child mental health as well.
To interject a moment of seriousness:
[sub]I know, I know, boo hiss, get off the stage, ya square[/sub]
Anyone else think the “new” childproof caps are seriously nifty? It’s a compromise, a two sided lid. Put it on one way, and it’s a childproof cap, same same. Turn it over, and it’s a simple screw-on cap. Best o’ both worlds. (And presumably easier and cheaper to make one kind of cap, slightly bigger than the old ones, on just one production line, than making seperate types, and distributing them where needed.)
This is why God invented plastic explosives. Or acid. Disolve that cap off.
Oh, ** Creative_Munster ** while you probably know all about renting a 9 year old in Thailand, I think the justice department frowns on that sort of thing.
We’ve been getting our prescriptions filled at Walgreens and they’ve been using those two-way caps for years. Not only that, but back before they had them we had told Walgreens that we don’t need child-proof caps, so now when we get our pills they’re already closed with the screw-on cap.
