And since scissors are literally two blades loosely attached, here we have proof that the restriction on small blades is just security theater.
Anyway, when i don’t expect to go through airport security, i carry two small knives on my pocket. One has little scissors and the other is very sharp. One or the other serves to open pretty much any packaging except the serious heavy-duty blister packs.
Yes, chips, cereal, etc. that actually drives me nuts. Yes, i can open them. But why do i have to fish out my knife to do so.
Nope, it’s ubiquitous. Maybe Canada still uses the old manufacturing process.
They are shiny squishy and colorful in some cases. Toddlers would see them, poke them, lots would put to their mouths.
Pretty sure that would taste bad and they’d spit and cry.
One in a million might actually swallow a whole one. It might kill a teeny percent of those.
Since all kids are precious to someone, of course we don’t want any of them to suffer and possibly die.
If your toddler shows interest,
Firmly say “No” and,
Put the pods out of their reach. Easy.
This foolishness started because Tiktok had a dare campaign trend. Teens and young adults were eating the damn things. If they got a belly ache, I say they had no home-training and deserve a belly ache.
Want some real fun? Try getting an Imodium tablet out of it’s wrapping. They have a handy line to tear on, but since it’s laminated in plastic, you can’t. It actually requires a pair of scissors and some very careful cutting to get the bloody tablet out of the packaging. Why the company feels it necessary to package diarrhea medication like this is beyond my ken. It’s like a cruel joke is being played. FUCKERS!
Toddlers don’t know all the different candies, they just know that it looks like the right size and colors that candies are, all in one little package.
Lol! Toddlers get into them when the parent is in another room. The toddler may not have ever expressed an interest in them before. And they climb.
More like tamper-proofing, to defeat the psychos (think Tylenol) or the idiots such as the ones I’ve heard of who were opening ice cream, licking it, then reclosing it and putting it back for some unsuspecting person to buy.
For a totally different product: it’s a pain to get that first roll of toilet paper out of the package, especially the mega rolls that are compressed before packaging. I use small finger nail scissors to cut a slit on the top and front of the plastic, essentially making a clamshell opening.
Some pill bottles have reversible lids. They’re child-proof in one orientation, but if you flip them over they are regular, non-child-proof screw-on lids.
I’ve seen this only for prescription meds. Over-the-counter meds don’t have these types of lids. Fortunately, it’s usually possible to orient the lid when putting it back on to defeat the child-proof feature.
Oh, the place where I tear it open to get to the zipper worked fine. But the zipper mechanism had some sort of lock on it which required you to pinch and push down on it simultaneously (or something like that) so you could unzip it. I considered trying to find someone with a five-year-old child to open it for me.
Once when I was picking up a prescription at Walgreens I assisted an elderly woman who looked at the childproof lid on her medicine and complained that she can never open them. I opened it for her, then flipped the lid and reclosed it so it was now a simple screw-on lid.