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What would "you" shrink-wrap?

Asked by charliecompany34 (7810points) February 5th, 2009

ever fuss over opening a new CD or a christmas morning toy wrapped in nuclear-age plastic for impatient kids who can “see” it but can’t “get to it?”

precious or everyday, what certain item would you make so difficult for somebody—anybody—to get to? of course, it’s yours, but only you know how to get to it. and you’d go to the extremes to wrap it this way just so nobody else will use it or get to it. it’s just too much trouble for the little buggas.

i’ll start off by saying my boxers, kitchen scissors, spatulas and my hair brush.

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elijah's avatar

Toilet paper

chyna's avatar

@charliecompany34 you have issues with folks taking your boxers? haha

charliecompany34's avatar

@chyna yeah, must admit—teenage son who is too lazy to keep up with his own.

chyna's avatar

I would probably shrink wrap pens, pencils and post its on my desk. People just seem to think if it is out on a desk, it is up for grabs. And never leave food out and walk away!

charliecompany34's avatar

@chyna oh, yes, i do concur! or better yet, your water or juice you bought just for you that’s been in the company fridge a couple days. you plan to get to it eventually.

Bri_L's avatar

Kate Winslet

Blondesjon's avatar

I was working in a print shop back in the early 90’s. In the warehouse when had these enormous, three foot long rolls of shrink-wrap. One Friday, during break, we took a roll out to the parking lot and shrink-wrapped one of our buddy’s truck’s shut. We used the entire roll.

Two weeks later I get off work and find my car shrink-wrapped. I started laughing when I saw how little shrink-wrap had been used.

“Amateurs”, I thought to myself and quickly removed the thin layer with my pocket knife.

When I opened the car door I found that they had filled my car halfway up with styrofoam packing peanuts.

I think I laughed harder than they did.

for a month afterward jonsblond would randomly come home complaining about packing peanuts floating out from under the seats when she drove with the windows down

charliecompany34's avatar

is it just me or is it harder to open just about anything?

charliecompany34's avatar

@Blondesjon a whole car? legendary, bro.

chyna's avatar

It is getting harder to open things. They put that hard plastic around things and I can barely open them with a knife or scissors. But there is this handy little gadget that I think Billy Mays hawks just for that purpose.

charliecompany34's avatar

@AstroChuck as usual, bro, you are da fluther man! ‘course on the other hand, any reasons why you don’t want that package opened by, well, anybody else? just, um, putting something on the back of your chuckster mind there…

but i know what you’re saying…

AstroChuck's avatar

I’m just thinking about her struggling to breath and I’m getting excited!

gailcalled's avatar

I would stuff my four, old carbon steel cooking knives into clamshell packs. Over the years, those sharpenable knives have been used, when my back was turned, as bottle openers, can openers, carpenter tools, and haircuts.

AstroChuck's avatar

edit: breathe

charliecompany34's avatar

@AstroChuck is there a substitute or synonym for LOL. because as much as i abhor LOL, your response deserves something more ethereal.

Dog's avatar

Congress and the Senate so they can do no more harm.

charliecompany34's avatar

for some reason—and the reason is very pivotal—making things difficult to get into probably, well, anything, most likely started in the early 1980s when a a certain benign “on-the-shelf” drug became fatal due to tampering. hence, the hard-to-open CD and anything else.

Blondesjon's avatar

@charliecompany34…I know man.

Thanks alot, Wham!!!

dlm812's avatar

@Blondesjon People where I’m from do that all the time to each other! Except sometimes it’s not funny when people use the store bought saran wrap, and wrap your vehicle in 103 degree heat (that shit starts to melt!). Kind of related is a good one my friends did to me on my 16th birthday – they covered my car in 3000 multi-colored post-it notes. I mean COMPLETELY covered. I didn’t even recognize it was my car until I got to the parking lot and couldn’t find my car :( It took me a good 1/2 hour to get the majority of them off before I said F it and drove off – pink, green, blue and yellow paper flying off of my car after me. It wasn’t until I got home that I thought about the possible littering charge I could have received.

In response to the question – I would wrap my car, my cds, my movies, and my bedroom at my apartment. I don’t like to share and I don’t like other people in my space.

KrystaElyse's avatar

Shrink wrap would have come in handy when I was living with roommates during college. I would occasionally buy some ben and jerry’s ice cream to have when I craved it, and EVERY time I went to go get some it would either be half empty or totally gone! Grrrr! I would have also shrink wrapped my entire closet and my dvds.

La_chica_gomela's avatar

why is “you” in quotes?
chica is confuzzled

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