First of all GRRRRRRRR......
I'm on the hunt now for a new, better, bigger package opener.
I'm leaning t'wards something like a "Arkansas Toothpick".
The little ole "Old Timer". just isn't getting the job done on some of the packages any more....
Why just this morning, I tried to open a new package of Chapstick..(I like using it, vs some of the other brands). Anyway, the plastic that wrapped it, I thought I was going to have to take it out to the shop and use the hacksaw on it, to break thru that plastic wrap. GRRRRRR.....
Now my "Old Timer" is sharp, I keep it that way using my Arkansas whet stone. But I was still having a time of it this morning, fighting that wrap....
And it's not just this one package I was fighting this morning....Seems like about anything that doesn't come in a can or a glass jar a person need to have a spare tire iron, a hammer and chisel, a helping hand, to fight to open anything any more....
The canned food, not much of a problem with those. But anything that comes in a jar.....Welll.....A person might want to go to some of your local farm sales and see if you can pick up a good set of Vice Grips.
And while I'm trying to open XYZ, and be damned, if there isn't another seal under the cap that I had just fought to get off.....Here I go and try and squeeze out some ketchup and nothing comes out...So I unscrew the cap, and there's that seal, preventing anything from coming out...Out comes that good ole knife, to cut the seal and pop it off....
Rats....by the time I got thru with the ketchup bottle, my french fries were cold...GRRRRRRR....
I tell you, I'm thinking there needs to be a congressional investigation about this problem, cause us senior citizens are either going to be going hungry, because we can't open food containers, or do much of anything to help ourselves sustain our independent living if we're going to have to call 911 every time we need help opening a package...
Shoot, since the holidays are just a few short weeks ahead, ya'll might consider giving some senior you know a new Bowie knife or Arkansas Toothpick for a present...Those are large enough, a person like me can get their hand around the handle, and it's large enough to get most package opening jobs done, and lastly it'll be harder to lose in the drawer. Not saying it can't be done though.
Well, let's see how the rest of this day goes.
WuzzFuzz
I'm on the hunt now for a new, better, bigger package opener.
I'm leaning t'wards something like a "Arkansas Toothpick".
The little ole "Old Timer". just isn't getting the job done on some of the packages any more....
Why just this morning, I tried to open a new package of Chapstick..(I like using it, vs some of the other brands). Anyway, the plastic that wrapped it, I thought I was going to have to take it out to the shop and use the hacksaw on it, to break thru that plastic wrap. GRRRRRR.....
Now my "Old Timer" is sharp, I keep it that way using my Arkansas whet stone. But I was still having a time of it this morning, fighting that wrap....
And it's not just this one package I was fighting this morning....Seems like about anything that doesn't come in a can or a glass jar a person need to have a spare tire iron, a hammer and chisel, a helping hand, to fight to open anything any more....
The canned food, not much of a problem with those. But anything that comes in a jar.....Welll.....A person might want to go to some of your local farm sales and see if you can pick up a good set of Vice Grips.
And while I'm trying to open XYZ, and be damned, if there isn't another seal under the cap that I had just fought to get off.....Here I go and try and squeeze out some ketchup and nothing comes out...So I unscrew the cap, and there's that seal, preventing anything from coming out...Out comes that good ole knife, to cut the seal and pop it off....
Rats....by the time I got thru with the ketchup bottle, my french fries were cold...GRRRRRRR....
I tell you, I'm thinking there needs to be a congressional investigation about this problem, cause us senior citizens are either going to be going hungry, because we can't open food containers, or do much of anything to help ourselves sustain our independent living if we're going to have to call 911 every time we need help opening a package...
Shoot, since the holidays are just a few short weeks ahead, ya'll might consider giving some senior you know a new Bowie knife or Arkansas Toothpick for a present...Those are large enough, a person like me can get their hand around the handle, and it's large enough to get most package opening jobs done, and lastly it'll be harder to lose in the drawer. Not saying it can't be done though.
Well, let's see how the rest of this day goes.
WuzzFuzz
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