I keep a functioning pump or two from old bottles around, so that when I come across one that refuses to work I toss it and replace with the old one that works. – I wash them out before storing, as they may be around for some time.
I do the same, but with pill bottle tops. My pharmacy started giving those “push down and turn” childproof caps, which are cumbersome in the least. (No children in the house.) I saved the tops of the last normal screw off caps; they’re probably five years old by now.
No kids here either.
I immediately remove any childproofing mechanisms from lighters, prescription vials, lawnmowers, lube, etc.
If you visit me with your toddler, you’ll likely return home alone.
I think the pharmacy will give you new no-children caps, if you ask them. I’m pretty sure they can still be provided for adults who have trouble opening the “childproof” type.
Many of the bottles now come double sided turn the cap upside down and it is a regular screw cap.
Yep, that’s what they send out to me. I think they look kinda dorky, like a cap designed by a committe, which is one the reasons I kept the plain screw-on caps.
You collect toddlers? Now that’s a novel hobby. What do you feed them? 
I think most of that is child-proofing. The nozzle is carefully surrounded by a guard so clumsy little fingers can’t get a good grip. And is stiff to move for the same reason.
I have a standing order with my local CVS that my prescriptions come with regular snap-on caps. Every so often they forget, and once I get the bottle open I replace the childproof cap with the snap-on cap from the empty bottle.
Wood finishing products that come in metal cans with the child-proof screw tops are nearly worthless. You can open them the first time, but once the finish sets up on the lid, it is nearly impossible to get the lid off again without channel locks, a lot of downward pressure, and the required cussing. I’ve even buckled the cans trying to get them open. I’ve realized you can remove the shitty plastic notched cap and then get to a normal metal lid that is easy to open (at that point, if you do need channel locks, it is easy). Horrible design. The plastic notches are not large enough and too soft.
I’m talking about these POSs:
Wipe it off before you put the cap back on.
I’ve tried, I still find them difficult to open. I find it easier to pop off the plastic cap 
Yeah, those things really suck. I’ve resorted to putting hte can in a vice and using pliers to turn the cap. Removing the plastic cover seems the only way to do it once the cap is cemented on by dried finish.
I recently saw a suggestion to wrap the threads with PTFE (Teflon) plumber’s tape before putting the cap on, but I haven’t yet had occasion to use a can of finish since reading that. I’m going to try it next time.
I hadn’t thought of that. Seems like that might be the ticket!
Thorough wiping and maybe using a bit of whatever solvent is appropriate to get both the male & female threads completely clean of product will solve this problem.
Metal lids could be glued on too. They could just absorb a little more unskilled abuse removing them before they became permanently unusable.
I think some lady did that yesterday. She opened her door and the alarm went off. She couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so she drove out of the parking lot and turned onto the street with her alarm still on. I thought alarms were supposed to shut down your car so a thief couldn’t drive off in it.
How about those cheap, plastic, 5-gallon gas cans? The nozzles on those things are junk.
Re: New gas spouts.
I was going to mention those. (I may have already carped about them here).
First spring mow/trim the other day. Time to fill up things. Reg. gas and gas/oil mix in a few things. Just an absolute nightmare. Spills all over the place. I’m not sure that if I had 3 hands I could still use them.
These are not solutions to the problem. They make things worse.
We had these HP hubs for our laptops at work. The guy in the adjoining cubicle was one of the first to get one, and he put a tiny potted plant on top of it as a decoration… before he realised it was an unlabeled power switch.
Agreed. I used gas cans for years before they came out, and rarely spilled any. Then the new ones appeared, and shortly after that my old gas can rusted through. The new ones, supposedly designed to prevent spills, were impossible to use without spilling.
– my neighbor had one we used last week that actually worked; though he had to hold a button down the whole time he was pouring. But most of them don’t.
I don’t know if this is product or software, but I really hate when grocery stores have those things on shopping cart wheels that automatically freeze the rear cart wheels in place if you take it out of the parking lot, to prevent people from stealing the carts.
However I have noticed any place that does this it only covers half the parking lot, if you park anywhere near the back of the parking lot the cart wheels will lock up despite still being in the parking lot. They really need to expand the radio range on those things.