Do You Have Trouble With Packaging?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267374/Why-need-pliers-open-toothbrush-packet-Difficult-packaging-afflicts-people-ages--Not-just-old-geezers-like-me.html

I personally find the hard clear plastic that encases so many things these days, from a pack of batteries to packs of pens etc.

The thin plastic film that encases a new DVD.

The caps on small bottles of mineral water.

And what about bananas, at one time I remember one could take hold of the stalk at the end of the banana bend it back and so continue to unzip the banana, not now though, why is this?

[MadMen]

It really annoys me. Kids can no longer open their own christmas presents, because most toys are now sealed in heavy-duty plastic and require screwdrivers and scissors to get into them!

[Canary42]

Such plastic wrapping as you describe is a pain in the @rse - and so unnecessary in most cases.

[atalanta]

I have long wondered about toothbrush manufacturers. Maybe they think we are going to frame the things and just admire them, not use them. I have had to get a fretsaw before now to open a pack of toothbrushes.

[Hopkirk]

Danny Baker often expounds a theory about bananas, on the radio.

He says look at any monkey eating one, and you will see they open it the 'other' end.

Just pinch it, and it will split open so you can peel it back.

[friedgreentomato]

Banana's should be opened from the stubb end not the stalk end as the monkey's do.

[friedgreentomato]

jinx hoppy

[chrisgel]

I found out recently that I have apparently been opening bananas the wrong way all of my life. It seems that monkeys and apes etc. (Who are credited with being the experts on the subject) open them by squeezing the end opposite the stalk and then peeling them. Tried it and must admit that it seems better.

[Baldric]

1. No I don't.

2. Start at the other end.

[daffy654]

That hard plastic that has to be cut to get into the item, it is really sharp and i've been sliced by it many times.

Toy cars tend to be attached to the packaging with a screw, when I used to buy them for my son it meant I had to carry a screwdriver in my handbag all the time in case I bought him one when we were out and about.

[daffy654]

I never knew that about bananas! I just had to check and it is easier this way :) I've been doing it wrong all these years. lol

[MadMen]

Lol. I just checked the banana thing too :-)

[TheOtherHalf]

with arthritis, I have trouble opening a lot of packages, especially ink cartridges,they have a really hard plastic outer cover, then a wrapper, then a box then another wrapper. Why ??? a box would be sufficient surely. Our wheelie bin for plastic and card recycling is full in two weeks

[albaqwerty]

too many things are inappropriately wrapped.

(I can see there being a surge in the sale of bananas over the next week or so)

[mccfluff]

the toothbrush style packaging is really annoying

[anotheoldgit]

Yes very strange regarding bananas, and I agree monkeys must be the experts on the subject, but I wonder if monkeys of old once opened them at the stalk end, because as sure as damn we once did, and with no trouble whatsoever.

It's the same with oranges these days, how many are easy peelers, or does one struggle with first the peel and then spend ages picking off all the white pith like skin.

[anotheoldgit]

Yet another thing about bananas why are they so cheap?