At one point, Band-Aid brand bandages were packaged in a little envelope with a tiny string you had to use to rip open. That was a terrible design so they switched to the current one, in which you have to peel the two sides of the envelope apart. But I remember another brand had a design where you yanked on either side of the envelope and it broke open much more easily and neatly.
They also get sticky inside and hard to open if they’re old or are kept in a hot place. Like in a first aid kit in a car. Or in a suitcase. Or …
And by “old” I mean just a year or two. It’s amazing how easy it is to have a 12-year old barely half-used box of bandages if you’re not a klutz & don’t have kids.
Echoing the earlier alarm talk, I feel a car alarm should only go off for a minute max then automatically turn off. There is literally no reason for a car alarm to blare for an hour because if it’s not responded too within 5 minutes it’s not ever going to be responded too.
When one turns to duct tape and paper towels, sterile is often the last concern 
I’m thinking more like peal off stamps. But on a roll on a dispenser.
I think this may exist…
I dunno, maybe it’s just because I buy the cheap off-brand, but I’ve never had difficulty unwrapping a Sterile Adhesive Bandage.
The old “open with a string” setup worked quite well once you got the hang of it.
The difficulty is opening it one handed when your other hand is currently bleeding all over the place. (From a cat owner)
When low battery alarms on non-critical things go on for way too long. I have a Bluetooth speaker I use all the time where seemingly it sounds the annoying alarm at 10% power where every 10 seconds it interrupts anything I’m listening to with loud annoying beeping.
The problem is that you still have 15-25 minutes of useable power left, I know this because I once got the low battery when I had just gotten into the shower and the entire thing kept beeping throughout my entire shower, shave, drying and putting my clothes back on and it was still powered on. The low power should only sound when the thing is about to die within a few minutes.
Just think how much time you’d have left if it didn’t run down the battery with all that incessant beeping.
Oh, my. I have so many complaints about the sound system design in my truck—many of which were already mentioned upthread—but I’ll throw out a few other major pet peeves:
First, shampoo and conditioner bottles that don’t say SHAMPOO and CONDITIONER in great big letters. The current ones I have are similar looking bottles with the brand name in 2" high text and the actual product in teeny-tiny letters. I’m in the shower! I’m not wearing reading glasses! Don’t make me squint at the bottle or try to memorize what this month’s bottle colors are.
Second, “ergonomic” scissors. Being a large dude (6’5" / 196 cm) with large hands, my fingers don’t fit well on most scissors. When I do find some that work, they’re usually “handed.” Being semi-ambidextrous, I tend to grab scissors with whatever hand isn’t holding the thing I want to cut. Many scissors designs are specifically for left- or right-handed people and can’t be used with the other hand.
And finally, car alarms. When our small town fills up with summer tourists, it’s not unusual for someone to set their car alarm, walk to the other end of downtown, and go inside a restaurant, bar, or shop. Then something sets off their car alarm. The car owner can’t hear it from where they are, and it just screams for many minutes, annoying everyone in the area. If you’re not close enough to hear your car alarm, don’t turn the damned thing on!
For many modern cars there’s no such thing as “turn it on”. The alarm is integral to the locking system. If the car is locked, the alarm is armed, period.
I recently had to get a rental car. Putting a few cases of soda on the front passenger seat was enough to set off its “no seat belt” alarm. Fair enough, but it’s loud shriek took five or ten minutes to shut off (seemed longer).
2nd. I only use shampoo, no conditioner. But I do sometimes find myself in a hotel using their stuff (why not?) and have to squirt some in my hand first to see if it makes suds.
And I have good vision. The type is tiny though.
The other day, I was using Google Maps on an iPhone for navigation in my car. As I was speeding down the highway, a pop-up window appeared, offering the option of using voice with the app. In big text there’s a prompt to go to the settings to enable this but in much smaller text is an option to dismiss the prompt. And in the meantime, this idiotic pop-up window is hiding the navigation screen.
I’ve yet to encounter a car or truck that doesn’t have a way to disable the alarm. In this town, a screaming car alarm is more likely get your car damaged by a pissed-off local trying to shut it off than it is to deter a thief.
That depends in what you mean by “disable the alarm.” I can definitely turn off the alarm when it’s going off and I can disconnect it altogether - but if there is a way I can turn it on when I’m parked in my driveway and not turn it on when I park down the street from a restaurant half-an hour later , I don’t know what it is. The alarm automatically sets when I lock the car.
This happened to me but with maps . google . com asking me if I wanted to use Google Maps. The main reason I use Google Maps when I do not want voice directions is because when I am using my browser on my phone, the window asking me if I want to use Google Maps takes up half the screen, and is hard to swipe away. Other than that, the offline map feature is decent, but I am rarely out of the service area.
I’m not sure if this belongs in “Stupidest Product, or Stupidest Software”…
I called my dentist from my car the other day. They have an “automated attendant” that says “Press one if you are in agony, Press two if you need instructions on brushing your teeth” (or something like that). Problem is - the car disables the touch-screen keypad when you are driving. And, their phone system defaults to hanging up if you press nothing. I had to call them back when i was parked.
Annoying.
Mine claims to have one in the owner’s manual. I did my best to go through the process. The alarm still works, as I found out in a parking lot the other day when I recklessly opened the back door to put groceries in without remembering to hit the unlock button twice first.
Probably I didn’t hold something down for exactly the required number of seconds in precisely the right order. But there’s no indicator as to whether it has worked; and trying again may turn it back on again, with no indicator that you’ve done that, either. Maybe the next time the car’s at the mechanic’s I’ll ask them to do it.
Google Assistant does this to me all the time on my motorcycle. I listen to the directions, can’t see my phone, and I’ll listen to the radio or music. If I say anything GA comes on and says, to use Google Assistant please turn it on. I don’t want it on that’s why I’ve turned it off yet it still listens. The worst part is that it will sometimes disable everything on my headset so I have nothing, no music or directions. There’s supposed to be a way for GA to not listen but I can’t seem to get it to work.