Gray Matters by Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler for March 27, 2020

Scissors

Let the kid open it.

Only thing worse was the stupid giant plastic things that cassette tapes used to come in. At one hospital I worked in, we had a guy who had a knife slip and stabbed him in the eye trying to open one of those suckers! He was smart, didn’t pull the knife out and we were able to save both the eye and his sight!

I’ve had to use tin snips or pruning shears (can’t remember which) to cut open some plastic packaging over the years.

Things will survive the apocalypse.

So much of the seemingly unnecessary clamshell packaging was not to protect the contents but to deter thieves in the store.

The designer’s of packaging should be required to spend 8 hours, per week, opening what they created.

They should have used that stuff on the Space Shuttle Challenger.

I saw a clamshell package opener advertised once. It came in a clamshell package.

Of course, the contents may be flammable…