A Small Irritation.....

Everyone has them…..little things that really get under your skin and just make you feel irritated. For some it's the slow driver in the fast lane. For some it's when you're watching a favorite television show and the service goes out. For some it's searching for one-half of your pair of walking shoes for twenty minutes and then finding it just under the edge of the bed.

One of my every-day-irritations is safety packaging. I understand the necessity but as a 74 almost 75 year old adult some of the shrink wrapped things I need to buy make me nuts. We get Fenway his favorite chew toys and the hard, thick clear plastic that surrounds these chew rings almost defeats my scissors, nevermind my hand!

And then there is some of the daily medications I take. Each damn pill is individually wrapped in semi-hard foil. The pill won't "pop" out when you push on it. You can try to prick each individual case with the tip of a sharp knife but that's not the safest way to handle it and a tweezers won’t break through the foil.

It only took me years to figure out that if I used my kitchen scissors to cut along the line of pills I can then, individually, push each one out and put them in the little plastic pill jar that I keep refilling for easier access.

On a scale of one-to-ten of world “problems” I realize this is nowhere on the list. Sigh. Safety packaging is just one of my small irritations….maybe I’ll get over it.