I wear one surgical glove for opening produce bags at the grocery store.

[brewens]

It works great. I just saw a cartoon on FB showing three people with masks on fighting the bags.

No charge.

[spanone]

1. we always get a kick out of ourselves and others struggling to find the opening

[leftieNanner]

4. Remember the old Candid Camera show?

They did one episode where they either had produce bags with both ends open or ones that had both ends sealed. Not sure why I remember that particular one. It was very funny!

[spanone]

6. Allen Funt. We loved it.

[leftieNanner]

7. The Original Reality TV! nt

[spanone]

9. Absolutely.

[Blue_true]

19. By bundling the end at the break line and rubbing the bundled

pieces of plastic against each other, the opening will form. It takes maybe 2 seconds.

[spanone]

20. 👍🏼

[underpants]

2. That's a great idea

Thanks

[dchill]

3. Thank you!

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Or.....

just find the open end (not always easy ) and rub the edges together rapidly - you'll then find a spot to grab and open it......

[brewens]

17. Yeah. It's twice as easy with the glove though. n/t

[MyOwnPeace]

18. But the ONE glove....

makes you look like you're from a JAMES BOND movie!

[ZonkerHarris]

27. Michael Jackson

[Blue_true]

21. That is what I do. Bundle the break end and rub the pieces against each other.

Never fails, open in 2 seconds or less.

[mitch96]

8. Lots of uTube vids on how to open these pesky bags. I like the rapid finger technique.,..nt

[beveeheart]

10. I always take a couple of the sanitary wipes next to

the carts. Rubbing the moisture from the wipes on my fingers makes it very easy to open those bags.

[Marie Marie]

24. That's what I do. Someone told me that they wet their finger tips under the

produce sprayers and that sounded good to me until I thought about spraying my finger germs all over the produce. I use the wipes to dampen my fingers.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. Well, I hope that produce bag doesn't sue you for malpractice for only using 1 glove (nt)

[demmiblue]

12. I find the wet produce (they are always spraying something) for finger moisture. n/t

[Grasswire2]

23. me too

The celery bin is usually damp.

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. LOL, one of my great frustrations in my life!

Trying to open those friggen bags. Wasted 10 minutes today trying to open 4 of them. Swearing at them does not help.

[lagomorph777]

32. I noticed that about the swearing.

But it does help my state of mind.

[Ms. Toad]

14. Most of them pop open now

by grabbing both sides of the end designed to open and pulling it tight, then releasing it. Several spaces in the middle should be separated once the tension has been released.

[Danmel]

15. I spray a little hand sanitizer on my hands

Works well and cleans my hands too

[Gidney N Cloyd]

16. Just rub the bag end between your hands like you're hatching an evil plan.

The static electricity build up makes the sides of the bag repel each other.

[MissB]

22. God that's brilliant

I actually went I inside a store this weekend and had the worst time trying to open the produce bags

[Ron Green]

25. Or you can skip the bags.

I put the produce in my cart, take it to checkout, put it in my cloth bags, go home.

Leave the plastic.

[Retrograde]

26. I only use the bags for small things

Like peas or green beans: larger produce, like you say, goes into the cart and then into my reusable bags.

[whistler162]

28. Is it on the correct hand and

can you do the moon walk?

[Fyrefox]

29. Tips appreciated!

With winter-chapped hands and fingertips, getting those blasted bags open can be a stressful challenge, especially if you're at a high traffic area like the donut bar where people are impatiently waiting for you to get your donuts so they can get theirs. The pressure is on!

[Tracer]

30. My technique is to...

dab a finger in the shaved ice under the veggies. The damp finger opens up the back in a second.

Now if manufacturers would only stop jamming their screw caps so tight, that I have to use pliers to open up a new item.

[lagomorph777]

31. I couldn't open the bags at Wal Mart until I started wearing surgical gloves.

One tiny silver lining of the pnademic.