If you remember the days when one listened to “phonographs” on “turntables,” you may remember the days of the Tylenol poisonings. That’s the time in the early 80’s when some sickos spiked Tylenol bottles with poison, killing some people and sending everyone else into a panic. The changes that came afterward were for the better: medicine now comes with tamper-evident seals.
I suppose on the basis that people put other things in their bodies, not just medicine, manufacturers began to apply seals to other consumables. Juice bottles have seals. So does milk, peanut butter, and (of course) baby food. All fine and good, right?
When I began to find these seals on things in my garage, I began to wonder if maybe, just maybe, we’ve gone off the deep end. I popped open a quart bottle of oil and lo and behold – it was safety sealed! Thank goodness that oil was tamper-free! Nothing should pollute my sparkling pure motor oil!
I thought I’d seen it all until it was time to kill off all my weeds and grass. Popping open a bottle of professional herbicide, I burst out laughing when I saw … a seal!
That’s right. A seal … on a bottle of poison!
Some sicko might try to put baby food in there.
Well we just found out the hard way too about that confounded weed killer. We thought we were spraying our way to a barren lawn with that stuff when we got done laboring all around the yard we found we had just watered the weeds! Hilarious! At least you had the good sense to check first. So now we have to wait another season to get our yard back. Can you believe the craziness? My girlfriend just bought a new hair dryer and no joke on the label it said , do not use while sleeping!….What can you say….Love Tanya
Thanks for visiting, Tanya! And good work on your blog. I sure do love reading it!