Pet Peeve: plastic bags that don't open without a fight

[undeterred]

Big plastic garbage bags or little ones you use to put a donut in. They drive me nuts!

[Haole Girl]

1. Wear hand lotion before going into the store

It helps solve that problem (just one of life's little mysteries I've solved).

[undeterred]

2. I'm at home and I've been trying to open a garbage bag for 10 minutes.

[Haole Girl]

3. Well, if you're at home, just lick your finger first!

;)

[Radio_Lady]

4. Rub the unfinished edge back and forth between your hands.

Do it vigorously, and the bag will usually come apart with that action.

(I haven't tried the hand lotion trick! Interesting!)

[undeterred]

6. I've rubbed all four edges of the bag to no avail

then I poked a hole in it, a big hole. Finally got it open but it has a hole. I am tempted to throw out the whole box.

[zonkers]

5. Always thought if terrorists really wanted to get us good, they would get

behind countless little nasty plots that would make us nuts, like making all the plastic bags impossible to open, or making scotch tape that constantly frays or even worse, pay the handicapped to ride the busses constantly, forcing public transportation to a standstill. Just a dumb thought.

[undeterred]

7. mass craziness

from trying to open a "bag" that is really just a single sheet... it could work.

[xchrom]

8. do i really want to out myself here?

inevitably i'm the one that can't figure out -- or gets it upside down -- the plastic bags you put your produce in.

there i am -- rubbing and flapping and pulling and tugging and pleading and asking god ''how long oh lord''...

just about every damn time... i don't DARE to look up and see who's watching.

[Skittles]

9. how about those security things on DVDs

always a struggle for my arthritic hands :(

[Radio_Lady]

10. UPDATE: It's 10 PM in Oregon. Are those bags open yet?

[Common Sense Party]

11. I can't stand the plastic bags inside the cereal boxes.

Some of them will not open when normal human strength is applied. When you finally do rip through, the cereal goes flying everywhere and you have a huge gash halfway down the bag. Freshness, my arse.