Is it *just* me (I don't think so) or are wrappers/"safeguards" really really irritating?!1

[UTUSN]

Wrappers, every individual food item or other-than-food-item - every danged item individually wrapped -

[MrPurple]

1. like this?

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[Skittles]

5. that cracks me up

that is me, opening those damn packages

[tblue37]

11. From CBS NEWS:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-to-deal-with-hard-to-open-product-packaging/

Did you know, on average 200,000 injuries are reported each year as a result of packaging for household/consumer products, including roughly 6,000 trips to the emergency room?

[hunter]

7. He needs a set of aviation snips.

Right, center, and left.

I'm not kidding.

Sometimes that's the only thing that will open these packages. I've broken cheap plastic-handled scissors trying to open these things.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snips

[malthaussen]

2. And let's not talk about childproof caps.

When there are no children in the house, nor likely to be.

They're so intricate, only a child could open them anyway.

-- Mal

[UTUSN]

3. Bwah-hah, "only a child could open them anyway"!1 n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

4. My grandmother used to use a hammer on those...

[patricia92243]

6. Itrems from CHina have to wrapped heavily to endure the long shipment :(

[3catwoman3]

8. Maybe we can seal up...

...the nuclear codes in this stuff so DFT can't get at them.

[Kali]

9. they are a sign that you probably shouldn't even eat them

heed the message!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. Well, at least pull-tabs are extinct.

My pharmacy puts "easy" caps on my prescriptions. All I had to do was ask.

Back to the dreaded pull-tab: