Monday, September 20, 2010

NEEDED....A CUTTING EDGE

I have made a determination of today’s Sr. citizen in America. You cant get through life here without a pair of succors and an assorted number of sharp instruments. If you have any intentions of eating the breakfast of champions, you could spend your whole morning trying to break into the tough wax paper if you don’t have your grandkids around as it’s impossible trying to get through that wax paper without a sharp instrument. Never let it be said our packaging isn’t sufficiently protecting that precious product they just got your money for. Oh, Its not for you, all that plastic and cardboard, its for the dingbat that wants to put powdered strychnine in your Cherrios (they must have powdered strict nine by now,)
And the medicine bottles of endless pills where the warning says keep away from children, I haven’t met anyone yet that hasn’t given it to the grandkids to open.

I love electronic toys and gadgets but Im almost through trying to purchase them because I havent figured out how you break open the plastic from the marketing paper with the brights pictures and instructions, without the kind of sicsors used for metal cutting, and in my old age iv’e acquired soft hands and not strength in them. I even considered shooting a package once…………and I had good hands then. Now with my oxygen they have taken away the easy open plastic tab and replaced it with a strip of tape, even my hard nails cant cut through so here I am, looking through drawers for a weapon I can carry in my cyclinder bag. So far I havent found one.

And what is the tiny printing about these days? Every bill I get including my bank statement is printed in a font so small I have to get a magnifying glass to read them and that’s not just us old folks, who can read that mess?

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