I bought a 9-pack of cotton socks from Target. The bag they came in has a recloseable, Ziploc-style stay-fresh seal. The bag was also doubly closed at the top; I had to rip off a strip of plastic to get to the Ziploc seal.
They’re SOCKS, not carrot sticks. I’m not going to remove them one pair at a time and carefully reseal the bag to preserve the rest for later. I’m going to dump them out all out at once, stick 'em in my drawer and toss the bag.
Does anyone store their socks in the bag they came in? Seriously, is there a reason for a sock bag with a zipper seal?
Well I do remove the socks from the bag one pair at a time as necesary, but I sure as hell don’t re-seal the bag.
Why does some sandwich packaging need a fireman’s pneumatic power-cutter to open?
Why does fresh bread packaging disintegrate once breached? (rendering it useless for keeping the bread in)
Why are m&m packets designed to explode? (because that’s what happens when the force of opening them eventually exceeds the strength og the bag)
Why oh FUCKING why do 2litre drink bottles have a little BASTARD of a sharp bit on the rim that rips your hand to shreds when you twist the lid?
Because the world is stupid and crap that’s why!
I think it’s so you can take them out in the store and actually SEE them.
I’ve taken kid’s socks and underwear out to check the sizes. My son is kind of small for his age, and the size guide on the back is sometimes rather vague, so it’s nice to be able to open it up without destroying the package.
Any frozen food with one of those paper zip strips. I have NEVER pulled one for more than an inch before it rips loose. Better yet, the outer layer of paper tears off, leaving the brown paper still in place, unzipped.
C.D. packages. Why the fuck do have to be hard to open? My theory (on all packages) is that someone in the international consericy that controlls everything thought that people kept opening packages, and getting their stuff out, so they decided to make us even more miserable.
But those are just my twisted thoughs.
and just because you’re paranoid doesn’t maen that there isn’t a huge international conspericy.
My WAG is that socks are packaged in the ziplock bags because the bag tops themselves are sealed either with heat or chemicals and zipping the socks up guarantees that socks can’t get caught in the outer sealing process, thus ruining the socks, holding up production/packaging and so on.
Sorry, didn’t mean to be practical. Carry on with your ranting.
[Jai Roderiguez]Just run the bottom of the case along the hard edge of a table (be firm and quick; it may take two tries). The plastic will tear open, and you can peel it off the CD jewel case.[/Jai Roderiguez]
This is why. You see, once someone has opened the pack to “feel” the socks, the package must be taped up - used to be you could send them back to the company, but they changed their mind the second summer I worked at a deptment store and said “tape them” instead. And for some reason, taped up packages don’t sell very well. (you would think people would buy the package they opened, but they don’t. We watched people all one summer at work and less than 1/2 of people would take the pack they opened!) At Back-To-School time, this results in the people who work in the clothing departments having a cart’s worth of ripped opened sock packages every 3 days. Since the sock companies finally got tired of stores returning ripped open packages, they put ziplocks on them instead, so people could feel the lovely socks to their heart’s content, without ripping the bags open.
Unfortunately, the ziplock solution doesn’t really work- people still rip the bags open. There are a lot of classless people, and all of them shop.
Nah, not in this case, the top’s sealed as well. You have to rip the bag to get to the zipper.
Leave it to Otto to come up with a plausible explanation though. The socks fill the bag completely and the top was heat-sealed. If the sealer was misaligned it would have melted the zipper and ruined the socks anyway, but during normal operation the zipper would keep the socks at least half an inch away.
I hate, hate, HATE cheap-ass “childproof safety lids” that come on Pepto-Bismal products. It’s not that I hate the idea, no, rather it’s the fact that a few of these things are designed like utter crap so that not only can a child not open it, but neither can an adult.
(Oh, and if you can’t get one open, give it too a small child. They can usually opo it open faster than you.)
Times when you really[ need that pink stuff is not when you want to wrestle with the bottle for ten-minutes to get the top off.
I kid you not, I once had to cut open a bottle with tin-snips once because I had been trying to get the stupid thing open and just could not. “Push down and turn…” Nothing. AAAARRGH!
They’re SOCKS, not carrot sticks. I’m not going to remove them one pair at a time and carefully reseal the bag to preserve the rest for later. I’m going to dump them out all out at once, stick 'em in my drawer and toss the bag.