# Trick for opening and resealing envelopes **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 23, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-for-opening-and-resealing-envelopes/431042 "2007-12-23T20:19:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-for-opening-and-resealing-envelopes/431042/21 "2007-12-24T01:51:12Z")
[QUOTE=A.R. Cane] Patience is a virtue, probably the only one that many of us has left. I’d also suggest you not count your chickens before they hatch, it often leads to disappointment. [/QUOTE] Well… really what I was thinking about doing was hatching them _so that_ I could count them. I had the order right, according to your proverb. What you should suggest instead, in this context is rather “Don’t hatch your chickens before they’re ready. If you do, you may turn them into horrible mutants that eat you alive.” Or something. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-for-opening-and-resealing-envelopes/431042/22 "2007-12-24T01:52:53Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] Wise idea. [/QUOTE] Hey **ivylass** you might be interested to know (or not) that your moralizing has fallen on deaf ears, as the brain behind those ears has not been convinced it is the correct target of these comments. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-for-opening-and-resealing-envelopes/431042/23 "2007-12-24T06:17:42Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Hey **ivylass** you might be interested to know (or not) that your moralizing has fallen on deaf ears, as the brain behind those ears has not been convinced it is the correct target of these comments. [/QUOTE] Well that’s your problem. A proper brain is \*between \*ones ears. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-for-opening-and-resealing-envelopes/431042/24 "2007-12-24T06:27:19Z")
> [@](#): > > horrible mutants that eat you alive Wow! that’s what _I’m_ getting for Christmas! ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-for-opening-and-resealing-envelopes/431042/25 "2007-12-24T06:39:24Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Well… really what I was thinking about doing was hatching them _so that_ I could count them. I had the order right, according to your proverb. What you should suggest instead, in this context is rather “Don’t hatch your chickens before they’re ready. If you do, you may turn them into horrible mutants that eat you alive.” Or something. [/QUOTE] Eh. I’m with you…waiting to find out potentially important information that is quite literally sitting right in front of you waiting to be revealed would bother me, too. People are often wrongly accused of being impatient when they’re really just objecting to unnecessary (and, in cases like yours, arbitrarily-imposed) delays. I guess I just don’t understand “the joy of not knowing”. I’ve heard the old axiom that ignorance is bliss, but I thought it was supposed to be an ironic statement, not a suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-for-opening-and-resealing-envelopes/431042/26 "2007-12-24T15:24:48Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Well that’s your problem. A proper brain is \*between \*ones ears. [/QUOTE] 😛 -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-for-opening-and-resealing-envelopes/431042/27 "2007-12-24T15:30:03Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Thanks for the replies everyone. I’m leaving well enough alone. -FrL- [/QUOTE] Given this, and that the OP has essentially been answered, I’m going to close this. Those who wish to discuss the wisdom or morality of the proposed action can take it up in IMHO or another forum. Colibri General Questions Moderator [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trick-for-opening-and-resealing-envelopes/431042.md?page=1)