Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for December 08, 2021

Not at all sarcasm proof

Putz-proof.

The prescription was for him to get more exercise. It doesn’t open.

A year ago I had to change pharmacies when the one I was using went out of business. They had bottles that opened without all the tricks. The one I’m using now do not so I regularly have to get out the cutting pliers and render the bottles openable. I haven’t reached the age where I’ll need to be protected against myself.

Get a child to open it! Walgreens has caps that you can flip over so you can just twist them on and off. Once I get them open, that’s what I do. Not that it’s all that hard to open them the other way.

They should be used on liquor bottles too!

I bought some Tylenol with an ‘oldtime’ twist of cap a while ago. I have a few of them. I wash and reuse them over and over again. Bleep childproof caps.

1. Push down on cap

2. Lift tab on cap

3. Hold left foot approximately 3 inches off of the ground

4. Grimace with mouth

5. Turn head to left and cough

6. Twist cap clockwise once, then counter-clockwise twice

7. Find a small child to open cap for you

He’s pulling up and swearing.

I open most child-proof caps with one hand. I can see where somebody with less strength would have problems…

Some have a lid you can turn over. Or ask when you refill.

They’re also a pain when you have arthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome

I have no problems with child proof caps, but I think the person who invented plastic clamshell packages should be staked out on an ant hill.

Prescription caps can be bad, but it’s the tri-level security caps on condiment bottles that drive me crazy. Let me in to this salad dressing, please!