Friday Rant... Packaging!!!

[Deep C]

Think about it... Almost every thing we get in life comes in some kind of a package. We can send men into space, talk and type over thousands of miles through the air. We can isolate nano grams of molecular level dna. But we can't seem to package stuff woth a damn. Lets examine this phenomenon...

Lets start with a grocery store. Stuff in packages is then bagged up and put in bigger packages. Down here we have plastic bags at most of the stores. Some have paper and some have both. Not entirely unique to the tropics is condensation. It forms on cold stuff when it hits warm moist air. Not rocket science.
How is it that a kid can graduate school where they learn about that phenomenon proceede to load all the warm dry stuff into the plastic then take that gallon of milk and stuff it into the one paper bag he had within reach? Its a race... Will I get to the car before the bag lets go? You're hoofin it quick trying to beat the inevitable...You step in a melted ice cream cone that too made it out of its package to the pavement just to keep you amused...
You make it to the car in time. You fumble for your keys. The bag is starting to let go. Its human nature to drop the stuff you do have a good grip on to catch the falling jug of moo juice...

Ok lets move on to the fast food joint. I understand the concept of minimum wage but I would thing that minimal effort should be made in trying to earn it. Would it be asking too much to just one time put the shit in the bag right side up? Grease from the fries that once sat in a cup upright is a ***** when it makes the trip through the tissue thin bag to the rolling tackle box'x uppholstery.

Now we take a trip to the electronics store. You buy a 13" tv for your fishing room. THe place we have here you see the set on the floor and pay at a window. They have you go to a loading ramp to pick it up. Onarriving at the ramp you see a marina quality wiggins fork lift comming down the aisle. On it is a cube a few feet square... You thinkto your self "Oh somebody is getting a chest freeezer"... The box is offloaded onto a smaller fork and four men carry it over to you! Yep its yours. Enough styrofoam to build a floating dock and enough card board to house half the hobos in the county...

Ok now we get home there s a package on the front door step. Moderate about a foot square. You slice fifteen layers of tape to get it open then 'Poof" You are inundated with an endless river of styrofoam peanuts! Of course you never open a package unless the wind is blowing... By the time you get to the ebay bought reel inside. your garage is now shin deep in the peanuts and all you can do is scratch your head how they get that many tofit in that little box...

Now we get to the one that really is up my scuppers today. Blister packs... What insensitive son of a ***** came up with this idea??? Fine ! Go ahead and show the product... Great for marketing. Why in the hell does the packaging they use have to be made of some bulletproof polymer five times harder than diamond and more cut resistant than kevlar? These things are made of metal or some other tough stuff... Cling wrap would work. Bought a cheap shimano reel or a navionics chip recently? Try and open the m**********r up with something short of a carbide edge grinder and an oxy acetylene torch and you may as well be trying to catch tuna in a mud puddle...

So next time you open something I want you to think about it... If it annoys you it is worthy of a post right here so don't be shy... There I feel better now...

[La Gringa]

There I feel better now...

oh thank gawd for small favors... hehehehehe....

j/k... that was hilarious actually... and you're right... the blister packs ARE the WORST..!!!

[zebco]

And I thought I was the only one that hated blister packs. Get a huge one, turn it upside down, put a motor on it, you will have an indestructable boat!

[nautiduck]

I bought one of those nifty blister pack cutter opener thingies. What pissed me off was it came in a G&dd*mn hermetically sealed blister pack that I had to get out the super duty utility shears to open!!!! It was like a last kick in the cajones before they let you in the secret club. bastards.....

[GitchaSome]

how about when the fast food guy can't put a straw in the bag or when he can't give you the right food?

[Deep C]

Would have responded sooner but these stumps of hamburger that used to be fingers feel like I've been using them as bluefish pacifiers... Theres a good amount of Deep hemoglobin mixed in with the demonic plastic shards that were those blister packs... But I won... I have my cheap ass shimano spooled and the Navionics chips ready to travel...

Straw? Half the time they give me the wrong meal. Not much will piss off the carnivore side of me than ordering a tripple whopper and getting a garden salad with faggot balsamic vinegar dressing instead...