Packing and Injury

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I just spent some time opening a curtain rod package from Levolor Corporation. I wasnt too bad. I'd opened another one yesterday with a simple screwdriver eight times over, nabbing the staples as I could to keep my dog from stepping on them.

This time I took regular scissors, forget that, and then some Kitchen Shear type scissors, and was eventually successful, though I ruined what would have been a good container for some other things in my house.

All this reminds me of the Zip Drive thing I bought at Costco that I had to use a hacksaw to get to.

I can see people hurting themselves in these endeavors.

Don't get me started on vacuum packed bottled stuff. I've given up more than once. And, I've taken something back to the store to have them open it (olives from Costco two years ago, the ones with the five inch lids... they had to call three people...)

I suppose there are statistics on all this....

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I'm not sure about actual injury stats, osso, but I've told my girls they can enter any occupation they choose EXCEPT package engineering. When I went to work for a large pharmaceutical/diagnostics manufacturer, I was shocked to learn that package engineering is a profession. I think they should all be shot.

You have my sincere sympathies.

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You know what annoys the hell out of me? When I buy a bottle of syrup and the first time I go to pour from the bottle nothing comes out because of that little friggin round piece of cardboard sealed over the bottle opening. You have to unscrew the cap, take the cardboard off, screw the cap back on, and by that time your friggin waffles are cold.

At that point I yell, "F#CK!!" and throw the friggin plate across the room and the waffles invariably hit the wall just right and they slide down and leave a nice butter trail all the way to the floor. Then, eventually, maybe a week or two, I have to clean that friggin wall and waste the better part of 10 minutes and all because they had to put that little white friggin piece of cardboard in that friggin bottle in the first place.

Fu#king bastards.

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I sliced my hand open pretty bad once on one of the hard plastic never-getting-into-this packages.

You have to be very careful with them. They hurt. And they cut deep.

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I have, in my pantry, a jar of stuffed mushroom caps that has been there for 2 years because i am unable to open the jar.

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Try it sober some time, dys.

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dyslexia wrote:

I have, in my pantry, a jar of stuffed mushroom caps that has been there for 2 years because i am unable to open the jar.

Grab jar.

Turn upside down,

Find unchippable surface.

Bang jar, lid down, on the surface (I use my kitchen benches).

You do it hard enough to be pretty hard, but not hard enough to smash jar.

Almost infallible at removing tough screw lids.

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One of my students at university had studied before changing the faculty "practical design - area of specialisation: package designing".

I've always thought, she changed the subject to social work due to a court's order for unsocial behaviour.

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Gus- If it weren't for the cuckoos and nutjobs who get their jollies by poisoning people, you never would have had the problem with the blankety blank pieces of paper.

What bugs me even more, is the plastic seal over some products, such as soft margarine. They leave a tiny bit of plastic hanging over the edge of the container. So I think that if I pull just right, I can peel the plastic off the container. It never works, and I end up cursing the company.

In the same vein, what about those products that are sealed with foil that is so thick, that you can't use your fingernail to pierce it???

I wish that they would stop putting in the seals, and I would just take my chances on getting poisoned!

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gustavratzenhofer wrote:

Try it sober some time, dys.

Interesting concept.

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I can often open hard-to-open jars by tapping the middle of the lid once or twice with something like the bottom of a knife handle.. but not always.
I can often open hard-to-open jars by using a rubber pot holder to maximize my grip... but not always.
Grrrrrr...
Then there is the old whack-the-side-of-the-lid routine using a wooden stirring spoon.. this rarely works.

Ouch, Bella, that hurts just to read about it.

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