Small Nuclear Weapons

What is with packaging? Why does almost everything I buy come packaged?

Meat. Vegetables. CD's. DVD's. Razor blades. Shaving gel. Hair gel. Toilet Blue.

You name it, it all comes packaged. Not just packaged either but sealed tight. 'Open Here' they kindly write on the packet. What they do not supply is the small nuke one needs to get the f***ing open!!!

Even a dam packet of crisps(chips) are so tightly packaged that when you do manage to get them open, they fly all over the place.

Bottles that will not open without first going to the gym and finding a muscle bound man to do it for you. Without that, you could die of thirst.

And cd's/dvd's/ They are really awful. How the hell is one supposed to open them? You can never find the thing to pull, if they have one. Oh, yes, you are supposed to rub them against something. What? The mind boggles. It doesn't work anyway. So one has to use a knife or scissors. Dangerous unless you have fingers to spare or don't care if you damage the item you spent a small fortune on. Actaully I have found a single pronged tool from my knitting machine does the best job, after much digging around.

Then of course we must recycle. So we have three, yes three, HUGE bins lined up outside our house. The brown one is for garden waste and cardboard and vegetable waste. The blue one is for all the packaging the supermarkets insist we have along with our food. They really ought to be paying to recycle it.Then there is the green one which takes everything else, like dog do, and the stuff you don't know whether it goes in the blue or green bin.

Oh and the bins, on bin day, have to be moved 6 feet forwards, otherwise they will not get emptied. The poor binmen are all very weak souls. They couldn't possibly move the bin 6 feet and then place it on the mechanical arm which empties it. It doesn't matter if you are 101 or crippled, you must move your bin that six feet or else...

Now they get emptied fortnightly. So the bins reek. It really makes the neighbourhood seem more rural-like a pig pen.
And yet, our local taxes go up each year. Soon, I think they won't bother with emptying the bins. No, we shall be forced to trapse the couple miles to the tip and do it ourselves, whilst guards watch over us to make sure we put the right rubbish in the right hole. Woe betide anyone who doesn't get it in the right hole. A flogging for a first offence. Being tipped in the hole for the second. There won't be a third of course as one would have been buried alive in the hole.