I consider myself very fortunate in having a garage, when most people in the world don't even have a car. My garage is really useful, not just to house the car, but in my garage I have my workbench with a multitude of Chinese tools; that is made in China.
When I come home, after buying stuff, I bring the stuff from my car and lay it out on the workbench and prepare to open the packaged items. I have the tools I need. Vice, hammer, hacksaw, scissors and various other cutting devices ... and band aids.
Today's incredibly tough packaging demands a set of aggressive tools to help open and release the products! From a simple toothbrush to a set of little batteries, they don't give up easily.
Most all of these items are incased in tough see-through plastic, vacuum packaged allowing you to see the item you purchased ... then spend twenty minutes trying to remove the item, intact, from the packaging.
Take a simple something like mouthwash.
The other day I bought a family sized bottle of mouthwash. (6 benefits in one ... 'one' what, I don't know.) I took the bottle from my car and sat the bottle on my workbench and looked at it ... it stared back.
I could tell, there was going to be war!
I was going to have to open this baby. Simply unscrew the cap? No way.
I took the bottle and twisted the cap to open it and sure enough it was "child-proofed" ... and that's understandable as any child would just LOVE the ugly taste of mouthwash. Right?
I love that ratcheting noise. It resonates aggression.
"Child-proofing" or, in reality, "Adult proofing" really ticks me off!
When I studied the cap, it showed how to simply squeeze the cap in the right place and simply twist it open.
Why didn't I think of that?
Now where is that right place ... it's under the cap somewhere!
So I carefully squeezed and twisted and sure enough it wouldn't open. I'm not one to easily give up. Again, I squeezed as hard as I could, and twisted it ... it wouldn't open!
I got my big pliers and really went at it ... squeezing and slowly twisting. It still didn't work.
By now the bottle and I both had an attitude.
I studied the bottle closely and noticed two little black lips on the bottom of the plastic cap. Aha! I got my hacksaw and cut them off!
Success! Now the cap works like a charm.
Some dark night I Would love to meet the designer of that cap ... even if I had to travel to China.
