For a while I’ve been considering starting a “most difficult container security measure” thread. But yeah, simply opening a new bottle or jar could easily qualify for this thread.
-Okay, there is a plastic ring around the outside of the cap. Is there a perforated portion to make it easy to remove, or is it easy enough to rip with a fingernail, or do I need a knife/scissors?
-Now that the cap is off, there is ANOTHER plastic barrier. Is there a tab? How powerful is the glue they used to affix it? Will the barrier come off cleanly, in one piece? And how much of the contents will be affixed to it?
Thank you to the Tylenol poisoner - a good candidate for the single person who has most affected the lives of the most people.
I did actually know that! I doubt they taste very good though, and they certainly don’t look very appetizing when I forget to check for stickers, cut up strips of bell pepper for a stir-fry or something, and see the strips have little pieces of label on each slice
I’ll add shampoo or conditioner bottles. Where the seal is underneath the lid, so I don’t realize it’s there. And it’s not possible to remove the seal if my hands are wet. Like they might be if I’m already in the shower.
Yes, this! Why don’t all those seals have a little “ear” that you can grab to get the peeling off process started?
I hate pill bottles that I get from my pharmacy. I have to stab the foil seal and peel from the hole in the middle of the seal to the rim. I cannot get it started from an edge.
Opening anything with a child-proof cap. Fortunately, my pharmacy has a notation on my record not to use them for me or my wife.
But there is one thing I buy that I buy that I have to tear off the cap with pliers and substitute an old cap that fits. And my wife has an aspirin bottle that has an expiration date in the 90s. But the pills aren’t that old, only the bottle is.
I’ll join your club as a non-whistler. I can’t, and never could. Oh, I can sort of make a whistling sound by making sharp “S” sounds between my tongue and teeth, but that’s it. I can’t vary the pitch, and I certainly can’t do the trilling/vibrato/tremolo type thing like the next door neighbor who lived next to me when I was a kid while he was working in his yard.
Finding a chuck key that you had in your hand 2 minutes ago and put down somewhere within arm’s length of where you are currently kneeling, and that has somehow contrived to become invisible.
The invention of keyless chucks must be a huge unacknowledged boost to productivity as every drilling task no longer involves long frustrated minutes of searching for the damn chuck key.
Yeah-- you can get prescriptions without them, and you can even find OTC meds without them, although not every place carries them. The box will have big caution labels that the container inside is NOT childproof, and if there are children in your home DO NOT purchase. I saw one once that said something about “FOR PEOPLE WITH ARTHRITIS,” as in, “only if you are old enough for arthritis, and therefore, obviously don’t have children in the home.”
For some time I’ve toyed with starting a thread about the most frustrating consumer packaging. It regularly impresses me how some products have security barriers which are east to figure out and remove, whereas others require that you use your teeth/knife/scissors.
Kinda related, why are some products.- such as some chips, packaged in plastic that seems designed to tear irregularly when you try to separate the top seam? Whereas other chip manufacturers seem to use plastic bags that are NOT intended to frustrate the user.
