I spent an hour last night getting a new toy out of its box. Has anyone except me noticed that manufacturers spend billions touting their products, but they don't want people to get into them once they buy them?
This toy was in a box within a box which was plastic wrapped, wired and stapled.
Notice the industrial strength staples that hold boxes together today? Can't get them up with that handy tool, the staple puller. One must use the business end of a screwdriver and risk bodily harm if the screwdriver slips. Then after getting into the box, each piece is double-wrapped with cement-like plastic which does not tear off easily, but must be cut with very sharp scissors, if the point of the scissors can be poked into the plastic (not likely--too thick).
And those child-proof bottles which are also adult-proof--once you figure out how to get the top off (couldn't those be made generically too?), you must use a very sharp object to puncture the plastic covering which does not come off in one piece, but a dozen little sticky pieces. After that, you must dig out what seems to be a whole box of cotton to get to the pill. I am all for child-proof bottles, but let's give a break to arthritic adults. Maybe a smart engineer could figure something out.
Isn't here way too much packaging everywhere? Trying to get into a CD or DVD requires a masters in breaking and entering. And while in the grocery store, why do we put something that is already bagged into another bag so that we can take the bags home and throw them away in the garbage? I understand that some places are considering charging customers for all the plastic bags they take home.
I guess it is just another look at our over-kill society. Thank you God for all the things I don't have.
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