Friday, April 14, 2006

A small rant about plastic.......and snot

Okay. Fine. Whatever.

I am in a strop again, and do you know what is the cause of my stroppiness THIS time?

Packaging.

That clear plastic stuff that creates a hermetically sealed cocoon around whatever goodies we happen to buy, like batteries or printer cartridges, or in today’s instance, some silicone “skins” for my lovely little iPod Shuffle.

There is no easy way into this bloody moulded casing, and I have to attack it with a pair of scissors, thus destroying the packaging forever, so if there were a circumstance in which I have to return the goods, they probably wouldn’t accept it back because I have totally trashed the wrapper! ...........And cut my fingers to shreds on the sharp edges of plastic in the process, so there is now much of the red stuff over the new goodies, and I have to rinse them off before I can even TRY a new coat on my precious little Shuffly thing without getting copious amounts of gore on it...

Surely there must be a more environmentally-friendly way of encasing such goods? If not environmentally-friendly, then surely PEOPLE-friendly???? At the very least, it should carry a public health warning........

Egads!!!! Is there no end to my suffering??

I pick up a magazine to flick through, but have to detach a CD from the cover first, lest its weight rip the page off, and find myself entangled in the hideous snot-like substance that is used to affix various 'freebies' to the cover of the aforementioned publication. I am a sucker for anything free - (yes, I KNOW that nothing in this life is free....) and am a marketing dream when it comes to extras tacked onto the glossies that I buy. I feel I am getting my money's worth if "Ferret-Twirling Monthly" has the added bonus of a dodgy plastic comb stuck to the cover with the horrendous bogey-glue..... But on the other hand, is it REALLY worth the effort of removing the sticky residue if it is going to send my already frazzled brain into melt-down?

Don't answer that..................

2 Comments:

At 1:03 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yep, hate those snotty attachments myself. What IS that stuff anyway?

 
At 1:22 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

you do know that those so called freebies aren't really free- on mags that dont have a freebie you dont pay VAT but on the ones that have something attached you pay VAT

Hugs
M

 

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