It Can’t Be Good For My Health
I’d sure like to know (and beat the crap out of) whomever thought up the “bright idea” of making it such a goddamt hassle to open a brand-new bottle of ibuprofen. I don’t know about you, but when I’ve got a PMS-induced headache threatening to ruin my day, I do not have the time or patience to deal with the quadruple-layered packaging.
By the time I’d opened the superglued box, found a knife to slice through the industrial-strength plastic sheath over the bottle’s lid (and cut my thumb in the process), jimmied open the safety lid, gouged out the heavy-duty foil top and extracted the foot-long piece of cotton crammed so tightly into the bottle that I couldn’t shake out the pills around it, my headache had evolved into a full-frontal painfest.
“But it’s for the safety of the chiiiiiiiiilllllldren,” I’m sure someone would try to claim.
Let me ask you this: how freakin’ safe can it really be when people wind up leaving the damn bottle open rather than trying to line up nearly invisible red-on-red arrows when they’re in the grips of a burgeoning migraine, eh???
*never tease someone who is dieting* *never tease someone who is dieting* *never tease...
TO: Kate
RE: The ‘Chiiiiillldreeeen’?
I thought it was for EVERYONES protection. Or have you forgotten the poisoned Tylenol business from the 70s?
These days, if the packaging has been tampered with, you’re not supposed to buy it. You’re supposed to alert the store management.
All that layering is a deterrant to would-be murderers.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. I understand you’re having a hard time at the moment. Just bear with it….
P.S. As for the migraine….
…I recommend Ginko Biloba. It dilates the blood vessels in the brain reducing the pressure that causes migraines. It also enhances mental capabilities.
However, I counsel against taking it in conjunction with other mind-pain relief medications.
I also counsel against taking it before going to bed….unless you want some REALLY weird and vivd dreams.
Look, either the box & plastic sheath or the box & heavy-duty foil top would be sufficient to prevent tampering. But both is overkill.
Which is exactly what I’m tempted to do.
TO: Kate
RE: Overkill
As I said, they aren’t worried about you having difficulty getting into the package.
They’re worried that someone of a nefarious nature will do as much.
The multi-layered defense provides redundance against the company being sued by the survivors of whomever is STUPID enough to use an OBVIOUSLY tampered with package.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve barked a knuckle, trying to punch through the hermetic seal under the hard to get off cap that had been wrapped in so much tough plastic it took a buck-knife to open. But I used my teeth….
Just don’t take it out on the wide-eyed kid or the hubby.
Do the dog!
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. I’m a cat person.
I get the Advil in the 200+ count size. (yes, Ibuprofen is my friend) The box is glued shut, but the lid is the kind you just have to push the two sides in to open, and it’s sealed only with the foil. NO COTTON. (They don’t need cotton anymore to keep pills from falling apart which was the reason for using it in the first place).
And if you want an even easier open bottle – get the kind with the top for arthritis sufferers – specially marked boxes. It has an easy twist off top that requires no extra manipulation to get it open. (although this wouldn’t be safe if you had kids that liked to try out your meds)
Sorry about the headache, hope you’re feeling better soon.