What tool(s) do you use to cut through the plastic and do you wear heavy gloves and a welder's helmet?
2007-12-17 15:39:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
ifixrex2000 wrote: <>
I've had that thought many times. I just finished cutting through the shell to open a package containing a car charger for my cell phone. After cutting through the initial wrap, there was a SECOND inner shell surrounding the charger! It's just a charger. This has got to stop!
2007-12-17 15:56:21 · update #1
Great ideas. Have to open it to a vote as I seem to be dripping blood all over my keyboard....
Thanks to all responders and to those who starred.
2007-12-18 17:22:47 · update #2
Twice.
I now use a plasma cutter to break through the membrane.
2007-12-17 15:41:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Not yet, see me after Christmas.
First, I use scissors, then a steak knife, then a butcher knife, then a screwdriver (poking it like an awl) and then I take the scissors again and connect the "dots" that I poked by cutting hole to hole. A few mishaps, but no artery yet. No gloves. I live dangerously. I don't wear a helmet, I have sturdy glasses on, with safety glasses over them.
Do you think we'll ever be a safe enough society so we won't need clamshell packages some day again?
2007-12-17 15:46:34 · answer #2 · answered by Amama 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No kidding. This is a great question. I use scissors usually and hope for the best. It's ridiculous. I don't know how sick, elderly or disabled people get those things open b/c I'm able bodied and have a LOT of trouble.
2007-12-17 15:48:36 · answer #3 · answered by ifixrex2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several reasons that you could say the friendship was never real. It is possible that one of the "friends" in question subconsciously put on a mask to win over the others affection in the beginning and when they got comfortable they stopped acting. Sometimes people want to be another persons friend so badly that they pretend they're someone they're not. I've seen this a lot in my life. I don't think this happens on purpose. It's been my experience that the person who was pretending often gets hurt in this scenario and I usually feel really badly for them. They're usually a sad, lonely person who just wanted to connect with someone they admired. It's also possible that one of the "friends" was pretending to be someone else on purpose to get something they wanted. Sex, material rewards and popularity are the biggest reasons people do this. I've also had this one happen to me but not nearly as often as I'm always on the lookout for it. Now when this one happens I get PISSED even if it was not done to me. This is just a real crappy thing to do to another person. But there are reasons that a REAL friendship goes bad too. People change over time and grow apart. One word; divorce. While most people don't often think of a marriage as a friendship, as I understand it, that is an integral part of any good such union. Just like with a marriage that started out as a wonderfully fulfilling relationship, friends can also grow apart. I had the same guy as my very best friend in the world for almost thirty years since we were kids. He changed. I changed. We "broke up" about a year and a half ago. We are now so incompatible that we can't stand to even be in the same bar at the same time. Not his fault. Not my fault. It just happens. Sometimes something severe takes place that will change one of the friends. Essentially its the same thing as above but instead of taking years it can happen in an instance. I've known people to come away from traumatic events changed. A car wreck, the loss of a loved one, a divorce... there are lot's of stressors that can change the way a person approaches life and that can destroy friendships that were once very real. We're human. We are inherently weak sometimes and quite often hurt others without intending to do so. It's hard to just walk away and sometimes we hold on too tightly for too long. That's when it gets bad. I try to approach these situations, whether it's happened to me or someone else, with patience and understanding. Often times for me the best way to deal with it is to acknowledge that the friendship is over, whether or not it was "real" in the first place, and just walk away. Don't try to understand what happened. Don't analyze it to death. Just get out of it. (((*Moon Goddess Erin*)))
2016-05-24 11:07:53 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have came close a number of times!!! Now I use heavy duty scissors or a box cutter knife. If the is a man around I ask him to do it for me. I live alone so that is not often. I am a girly girl and have problems opening all kinds of things!!!
2007-12-17 15:45:18 · answer #5 · answered by Linda S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LOL!! This is without a doubt the BEST/funniest question ever asked here!
Believe it or not, I bought a pair of wire cutters just for that purpose, because I've ruined three pairs of very expensive heavy duty scissors on them.
Hmmm...maybe bolt cutters would work too!
2007-12-17 15:57:46 · answer #6 · answered by LolaCorolla 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not personally, but I sewed up a young fellow's laceration from struggling with one of those packages. They sell a tool designed specifically for opening them safely - but the one I saw came in just such a package! I just don't buy stuff packaged that way...
2007-12-17 15:46:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
High Performance Tactical Flashlight : http://FlashLight.uzaev.com/?tnHE
2016-07-10 21:43:58 · answer #8 · answered by Bernard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's funny. No, but I've come close a few times. I think it's a conspiracy by manufacturers of battery-operated scissors.
2007-12-17 15:45:16 · answer #9 · answered by mz112ungu 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I haven't done that, but I have almost lost a finger or 2....have to use a chainsaw and riot gear to get to the prize inside!
2007-12-17 15:44:17 · answer #10 · answered by But Inside I'm Screaming 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋