This is 2010, we're a tenth of the way through the 21st century, and we still can't get the really important things right.
We've put a man on the moon, we can send space probes half-a-billion miles to some other planet and land them more or less where we want, we have the World Wide Web, cars that monitor the driver, TVs with 200 HD channels, and a host of other technological marvels. Why is it then that I can't find a freakin' can-opener that's worth having?
I've tried them all. I think I'm obsessed with finding the perfect can-opener. I've ordered them from TV that only nip the sides of the top of the can. It was a piece of crap. You had to turn it backward and it seemed to be designed for lefties. I had a nice electric model that I bought at K-Mart that lasted about 6 months and then just quit working. I used to have a crank model mounted on the wall over the sink that worked for about 20 years, but I can't find another one. My latest model was a nice black and silver hand held model from Walmart. It's junk. It quit working after about 50 cans.
Now I'm reduced to using my $6.97 Walmart model to snip the lids off the cans a bit at at time.
Why won't somebody fix this problem? Can-openers are just the tip of the iceberg where ill-operating conveniences are concerned, but it's one that glares at me because I encounter it every day.
Instead of issuing a grant to some egghead to figure out why stars twinkle or why dogs sniff their butts maybe the government will fund a design contest to fix this can-opener crap.
And btw, why don't all cans just have pull tops? This is 2010 after all.
We've put a man on the moon, we can send space probes half-a-billion miles to some other planet and land them more or less where we want, we have the World Wide Web, cars that monitor the driver, TVs with 200 HD channels, and a host of other technological marvels. Why is it then that I can't find a freakin' can-opener that's worth having?
I've tried them all. I think I'm obsessed with finding the perfect can-opener. I've ordered them from TV that only nip the sides of the top of the can. It was a piece of crap. You had to turn it backward and it seemed to be designed for lefties. I had a nice electric model that I bought at K-Mart that lasted about 6 months and then just quit working. I used to have a crank model mounted on the wall over the sink that worked for about 20 years, but I can't find another one. My latest model was a nice black and silver hand held model from Walmart. It's junk. It quit working after about 50 cans.
Now I'm reduced to using my $6.97 Walmart model to snip the lids off the cans a bit at at time.
Why won't somebody fix this problem? Can-openers are just the tip of the iceberg where ill-operating conveniences are concerned, but it's one that glares at me because I encounter it every day.
Instead of issuing a grant to some egghead to figure out why stars twinkle or why dogs sniff their butts maybe the government will fund a design contest to fix this can-opener crap.
And btw, why don't all cans just have pull tops? This is 2010 after all.
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