If you already know this, delete this message and don't e-mail me and make me feel dumber than I already feel.
We are never too old to learn something new! I never knew what you are going to read below. I now plan to look at the end of the box on all my plastic wraps. How many years have I cursed at something I could have stopped?
I had to go into the kitchen and check this out for myself. Whoever looks at the end of your aluminum foil box? What a fantastic idea. I've been using aluminum foil for more years than I care to remember. Great stuff, but sometimes it can be a pain. You know, like when you are in the middle of doing something and you try to pull some foil out and the roll comes out of the box. Then you have to put the roll back in the box and start over. The darn roll always comes out at the wrong time.
Well, I would like to share this with you. Yesterday I went to throw out an empty Reynolds foil box and for some reason I turned it and looked at the end of the box. And written on the end it said, Press here to lock end. Right there on the end of the box is a tab to lock the roll in place. How long has this little locking tab been there? I then looked at a generic brand of aluminum foil and it had one, too. I then looked at a box of Saran wrap and it had one too! I can't count the number of times the Saran wrap roll has jumped out when I was trying to cover something up.
I'm sharing this with my friends. Now, if someone would just make plastic wrap that didn't stick to itself.
I hope I'm not the only person that didn't know about this.
2 comments:
I remember the roll always pulling out instead of unwrapping so I grabbed a knife to stab tabs violently into the ends of the box only to discover the perforations already there. That was the last time I held a knife in anger, realizing the box designer probably had a constantly calm demeanor that allowed practical creativity and went on to invent ziploc bags or peanut butter slices. Or the tabs were invented first, then they came up with the roll dipenser to fill the gap.
Plastic doesn't stick to itself (baggies) except for it to be clingwrap and not transparent wax-paper. Studied wrapping left-overs in Nepal and same as fingerpicking rockabilly it's just time and practice, then suddenly... [any sustained vowel].)
Merry Christmas, Kid!
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