The occasion is that today it dawned on me that the pharmacy is now giving me the two medications I get (that come in pill bottles) without childproof caps. I don’t know whether to be happy or offended. Offended, because I figure they have now decided I’m too old to have children in the home, and that at my age, I may have trouble opening a childproof cap. Okay, the first is true, but I’ll have you know I can still open a childproof cap with the best of them. Including children. Since children at the age of five can open Google and hack your email, I figure a childproof cap is no challenge at all. And don’t get me started on the OTC things like bottles of Ibuprofen where you have to match the arrow on the cap to the little projection on the bottle. Whose idea was that anyway? Grr.
Let’s now talk about tape. At work, I get a lot of deliveries from UPS, which come in boxes that would put the security of Fort Knox to shame. Sometimes I think, it would be nice to know what’s in this box, but apparently I’m going to have to Xray it to find out. Because I’m certainly not going to be able to open it. The fact is that in order to open the box, you have to have a tool, namely a carpet knife, to cut the tape. What is wrong with this picture?
Having to have tools to open a package leads me to my coup de grace–that hard plastic molded stuff that surrounds (fill in name of product here). Never try to buy, for example, a tiny little flash drive for your computer. It will come in a package 100 times its size and be surrounded by cardboard and hard plastic. The package will cost more than the item.
I once read that this style of packaging was developed to discourage shoplifting of small items. Okay, I get that. But this stuff is the bane of my existence. So you have to have a tool, and here’s one from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Zibra-ZPCOPEN-OR-Universal-Package-Opener/dp/B000IHHOVI
Can shoplifters outfitted with Zibra Universal Package openers be far behind?
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