Length of Shower: 10 min.---Boxes. They carry so many essential items. TVs, Stereos, Shoes, tissues, a small man named Jack who apparently stays in there all the time, and lots of food like cookies, cereal, pancake powder, cake mix, and a bunch more. Boxes hold some of the most important things in my life.
Boxes are great! Except when I want to open them. More specifically, those boxes that have the ‘easy to open’ instructions frustrate me the most. Those are the real boogers to open. "To open simply press thumb here" Yea right! Now for the record I am not a weak-thumbed person. I have won my share of thumb wars, but I feel so inadequate when I try to open a simple box of macaroni-and-cheese. It is supposed to be sooooo easy to open by pressing your thumb in the side and then simply ‘popping’ the top off. But I can’t seem to do it. I end up just hurting my thumb, not even putting a dent in the box, and saying small amounts of profane phrases to myself in a quick whisper. And it’s not just Mac-N-Cheese boxes either; those little individual cereal boxes have it too. You know the variety pack of small cereal boxes? They have an ‘easy to open’ instruction that involves hurting your thumb too. The apparent difference is that their opening spot is on the front. Ha! That doesn’t make any difference! In both cases I end up wondering, “what’s the point?” Neither one is easier than just opening the top flaps at the creases that are already there to begin with, which seems WAY easier than trying to fight with the box and hurting my thumb in the process. I mean, those creases are how the cereal and macaroni got in there in the first place, so why wouldn’t I just reverse that process to get the macaroni out? Easier, right!? I tell you what, from now on I will open boxes how I see fit and not feel badly about it. What do you think about that you box making companies? Now who feels inadequate, huh?
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