Simple Daily Challenges

This blog will be a quickie as well as an admission of ineptitude, perhaps. In the grocery store the other day, I picked up a new bottle of hand soap. Nothing unusual about that; it’s the liquid version with a small squirt pump thingie on the top. I got the store brand as it was thirty cents less expensive, perhaps to compensate for spending several bucks on something else, something not needed at all. At any rate, the next day the regular “brand name” liquid soap finally gave out – I had timed the new purchase well. Here’s a photo of the new little goodie.

 

 

It looks harmless in this photo, all set and ready to use. And now it is. However in order to get the “pour spout” to work, to function, I had to figure out how to get the plastic apparatus to free itself from a nested position. After four or five minutes of routine pushing, pulling, turning and twisting, it dawned on me that nothing I could do with my fingers was going to break the system loose. So I resorted to my tool set in the garage and snuck up on the little bottle with a pair of pliers. Those, with a good grip from its metal teeth did the trick and suddenly the top just popped up and out of its storage position. Voila! A few pushes to prime it and we had ourselves a nice new plastic container of hand soap.

 

Aha! Now I felt like a mechanical wizard. Perhaps the financial discount was in part to compensate the buyer for going through the mental process of getting the thing open. Dunno!

 

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