I'm relatively sure that past rants about sucky packaging have mentioned shrink wrap. While wrestling with a blank video tape in otherwise adequate packaging, it was the shrink wrap that pissed on my glorious parade.
If shrink wrap is a necessary evil in today's society as it certainly appears to be, then a simple zip strip should be required in order to quickly and efficiently remove the shit from its plastic cocoon. For my continued disposable income, I don't think that I'm asking too much of them. Considering the lack of a lightning fast release hatch, perhaps I am making hellacious demands and I should just sit down, shut up, and get over it. However, that's not the way that we roll at YPS!!. Oh hell no. We've declared war on packaging that sucks (!!) and we're bringing in the big guns. Okay, maybe low-rent, dainty-sized weaponry like sarcastic belligerence with a dash of piss and venom.
As I struggled to open the tape, my waning manliness took a beating yet again, because I wasn't packing the obligatory pocket knife. Of course, I should also add that my manliness never reached true fruition because I have a deep hatred for NASCAR, I don't own a gun (although I do own a few Ted Nugent albums), I don't chew tobacco, and I don't drink beer. But I digress. In the surroundings at the time, I couldn't even locate scissors to use as some kind of pseudo-knife or even a key.
I'm sure that you're sitting on the edge of your seat with intense anticipation to find out just how I got into the rat bastard packaging. I'm just sure of it. Not really, but work with me. Act interested. Please.
With the complete lack of classic sharp objects, I figured that I'd have to McGuyver my way into the shit. I took a look-see around the room to see what might give me access. Rubber band...no. Workplace newsletter...definitely not. Remote control...not unless I beat the hell out of it. Paper clip...well, hell yes. Straighten out the kinky curl of the clip and it tore through the bastard wrap like MC Hammer going through his album royalties. Another frustrating minute of unwrap time and it would have indeed been Hammer Time.
In the aftermath of the struggle, it made me think about the shitpot of items in this world of ours that are shrink-wrapped for our protection and aggravation. I wonder what percentage of my lifetime has been spent trying to find the weakest fault line to break on through to the other side of the plastic bullshit phenomenon that is shrink wrap.
Not only is the shit a pain in the ass, but it's also a menace to our environment and good times like
Toby Keith. Once you've freed your product, I'm guessing that you don't have the wrap steamed and pressed into near mint condition for your rapidly growing shrink wrap collection. I could very well be wrong. I'm guessing anyone that has a used shrink wrap collection probably has a used bandage collection or a display cabinet for childhood scabs. If anyone should indeed have a scab collection, I sure as shit do not want to see photos, because that would be a nasty sight to behold.
The point that seems to be missing in my incoherent bullshit is that shrink wrap sucks. It's a bitch to remove, it usually finds its way directly to a trash can, and in short, it is a prime example of packaging that sucks!!