Rips, tears, broken and never to be opened

[cackydoodledoo]

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or have arthritis in both hands and have a killer migraine -- just try to open Imitrex with the 'safety-sealed' blister pack with the extra-tight foil on the back -- if ya' didn't have a migraine already trying to get the danged tablet out will cause one -- ugh --

What is up with that?? Why can't they just dispense them in a bottle like regular medication? I also do the shots and they are much easier but really send me for a loop so only use them when I can lay down for awhile.

 

[BorderKelpie]

Ok, I feel a little better. I thought I was the only one who had issues like this.

I can never get the coffee can lid open. I run the can opener around it and it always leaves not one, but two still attached pieces. Then, I risk removing a finger by trying to saw trough it with whatever sharp object I can grab. Invaribly, I slice a finger or my hand on the can anyway.

Drat this coffee addiction.

Oh, on a related note, I have a hard time opening band aids, too. (Since I now leave a box of them on the kitchen counter next to the coffee pot. Seems like that's where I need them the most) *sigh*

lol

 

[Tala]

Anything that won't open on the first try usually gets opened with my pocket knife (coz the scissors are MIA.....as you guys have previously discussed) I'm a firm believer in Gibbs rule #9 so if my knife doesn't "fit" on a pair of pants I'll lose the pants before I leave home without my knife. If you pack a sturdy knife you can even open cans with it, but some of the people on this thread might not want to attempt it.

Bottles are another story entirely. I swear I spent 10 miles on the interstate last Sunday trying to get in to a bottle of Dr Pepper, and wouldn't you know I dropped it at one point (coz ya know driving WAS more important at the moment) so when I finally did get it open it fizzed up and leaked on me. I was on the way to work and it's always great to show up for work with stuff spilled on your clothes

but dangit I hadn't had any DrP all morning! I'm about as bad as you coffee drinkers (and yes I drink coffee when it's cool out in the morning, I usually buy the coffee in bags and use scissors....but gas station coffee will work fine if the scissors are missing)

One thing I miss, they used to have these can openers that punched holes in juice cans, rather than taking the top off. I remember them way back from daycare and elementary, when they fed us apple juice from big cans. Where can you buy one of those now????? Would be really dang handy for condensed milk ya know. I'm always using the regular can opener to just open a hole in one side and a vent in the other, but it doesn't work quite as well as the punch kind.

At least, Bennadryl (ok, the store brand of the same) can be purchased in regular bottles of tablets (think pink Ibuprofen) but ya gotta buy a gazillion of them and they will expire before I use them up, still sometimes it beats fighting with the blister packs. Now Advil cold and sinus, even the off brand of that comes in the foil blister packs!! GRRR Sometimes this also leads to me stabbing the foil with my knife rather than trying to peel it apart like you're "supposed" to.

I don't even use shrink/saran wrap due to childhood experiences.

My solution for most cheese and lunch mean is to destroy the original package on purpose and put it in tupperware or a ziplock. Chips are just impossible

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yeah , I am always spilling stuff. Most often animal feed, but often goat milk
I get lots of help from the animals. They help spill it, they also eat /drink it. I had a goat mash down the fence today because I was late feeding. She went in the pasture where the chickens are and ate laying pellets out of the feeder. She is now in a pen where hopefully she cannot get out.
And those heavy duty packages of plastic they make so stuff will hang on pegs is the worst. You almost need a chain saw to open it. Anyone else ever break an egg trying to get it out of the bubble wrap? I am so talented.

 

[EweSheep]

I love those punch things....what is it called? I remember tall cans of Hawaiian juice, tomato juice and of course the evaporated milk using that thingy. However those thingys do dads do go missing once in a while but not as often as scissors!

Don't you hate multiple wraps on food and they call themselves GREEN??!! Oh please!

Try to refill the shampoo bottle...you can not get the lid open! And to open those lids, they dont have a lip that you can flip it and squeeze it out. Now if you got nails, you can pop the lid back and pour the shampoo out of the bottle. I'm talking about Pantene shampoos.

Oh the canned goods, sometimes when your brain is in a fog, you could not pop those sealed lids off without mulitating it. Like Razaida!

For those who drink bottled wine, or dont drink wine, someone brought in a bottle of wine for your fabulous dinner and you don't have the cork opener or at least know how to use it. And at the worse case scenerio, the cork fell into the wine and there was no way you can get it out without tearing it up the cork.

 

[schellie69]

I am so glad that I am not the only person this happens to I hate cold pills. DH has to open them for me. I try and buy the bottle of pills if I can. I buy the coffee with the peel off lid but those sometimes are so hard I end up with coffee all over the floor. I hate jars they are super glued shut sometimes at least for me. The only problem I have with advil is trying to get the foil off and that stupid cotton out of the bottle I have a head ache I want those pills now nope spent a dang hour trying to get the cotton out. I think there is a group of people sitting around just thinking of ways to make things harder to open just so they can have a good laugh. Don't even get me started on kids toys and trying to open them takes 4 adults and a hour of time.

while child is screaming for their new toy.

 

[cackydoodledoo]

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I always wonder if they have a machine or person that puts all those twist ties and tape on them. And the clear rubberband thingies on dolls. Sometimes I think it would be easier to just take them all out of the box before you wrap them and save the trouble later with anxious kids!!!

 

[schellie69]

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I always wonder if they have a machine or person that puts all those twist ties and tape on them. And the clear rubberband thingies on dolls. Sometimes I think it would be easier to just take them all out of the box before you wrap them and save the trouble later with anxious kids!!!

I agree I am lucky my husband also follows rule #9 of Gibbs, (love that man) don't go any where without your knife. I started to carry one but mine got taken away it seems DH and kids say that I am to dangerous with knife.

That is okay I am getting another one

I hate all those twist ties on the toys and bread and other stuff. My 2 year old DGD can get those pills out of the blister packs easy. Things are not kids proof their adult proof. Also all those close bag here salad stuff yea right like they stay closed. Glad I am not the only person who has problems with all this new stuff.

 

[EweSheep]

With those meds in blister packs and so forth, I would get all of the meds out by another person like another teenager and put them all in a pill box or easy open RX bottle.

 

[TriciaHowe]

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I use scissors to open just about everything

If I don't things go flying. I always thought it was funny with the "push here" triangle on boxes of mac & cheese. Those things NEVER work!! It only crunches down the corner of the box

Boxes of laundry detergent always mess with me too......