Really really irritating little things

[StealthPolarBear]

(anyone who asks if I don't have anything more important to worry about - you have a point)
Houmous. Comes out of its cardboard sleeve - fine.
Then you have to undo that plastic collar thing. The perforated section breaks off under the lid and then you have t sort of yank at it, leaving a loop around the tub.
Anyone else? Just me? Feel free to add your first World irritations.

Philadelphia cheese tub lids that don't stay on no matter what you do. I even complained to the company and just got told no one else has a problem! They fall off in the fridge constantly.

Anything in that toughen vacuumed packed hand shredding plastic that things like scissors come in. You have to hack at the packaging, then you eventually get one side open and you wrestle whilst trying not to cut yourself.

Drives me mad! What is the secret to opening this packaging?!!!

Those small pots of yoghurt (Muller Corners, I am looking at you...) that, when you pull up the corner of the foil lid, spit half the contents over whatever you are wearing, which is always black and smart and you are on your way to a funeral/wedding/interview and you arrive looking as though you've been pebble-dashed and smelling slightly of babysick....

Ready meals with the film sealing over a plastic carton. I always, always manage to tear off the film edge only leaving the food still firmly covered with film.
Or you get diagonal shreds across the food. They used to be OK; they must have changed the film.

Also items that come in cardboard boxes sealed with sellotape, that say "do not use scissors/knife to open". What are you supposed to do, chew the box open?

King pot Noddle, They always come with the small sachet of Soy sauce. So you need to add more.

@Jdabbers

Anything in that toughen vacuumed packed hand shredding plastic that things like scissors come in. You have to hack at the packaging, then you eventually get one side open and you wrestle whilst trying not to cut yourself.

Drives me mad! What is the secret to opening this packaging?!!!

Scissors. Which is not all that helpful when the scissors are in the packet you are trying to open.

Cotton wool buds and cocktail sticks. Never get to use more than then before I've dropped them all over the floor!

I feel all your pain. Been reading these nodding at each one. As a pp mentioned, resealable pasta, you can reseal the top maybe but what about all the stuff coming out of the sides?!

Hand dryers that are too high on the wall so that they blow all the water down your sleeves.

The plastic wrap with a little perforated seam on the cap of mouthwash bottles. Almost impossible to get a nail under to start to tear it, then it goes off to the side and you end up going round and round the lid...easier to just take scissors to it!

Labels in clothing that are so sharp they could give you an impromptu appendectomy. What the Hell do they make them out of?

I'm a nurse and pulling medication out of the individual packaging is a daily battle and the mega expensive Rx that says "do not use scissors" won't open despite folding at the dotted line-I carry scissors on duty to just access what my patients need!

The toilet paper when the end is stuck down too tight, so some of it pulls off and some is left clinging to the end, refusing to accept its fate. Then sometimes it splits down the 2 ply section as well. By the end the toilet floor ends up covered in little shreds of paper.

Ready meal films NEVER come off without scissors. NEVER!

My Hetty Hoover is a bitch. She refuses to come round corners then falls over in a passive aggressive manner.

@DrMadelineMaxwell

My Hetty Hoover is a bitch. She refuses to come round corners then falls over in a passive aggressive manner.

Yup, see also her shy, virginal brother, Henry. We scoot around the house together, no bother at all, until we reach the bedroom. Then he goes all coy, keeks round the corner of the door at me, and when I give him a quick tug (fnar!) he has to have a wee lie down in the hall.

Rice. Why the fuck is rice in those stupid bags and not a container with a top like Bisto gravy for example

I can only assume Henry is a keen footballer given his love of dramatically falling over

When you get back to your car and someone is parking next to the drivers side so you have to wait for them to stop dicking about so you can get in. Makes me seethe (unreasonable I know).

What about opening a cardboard packet of tablets? Doesn't matter which end you open, it always has the bloody leaflet wrapped around the blister pack!

My Pyrex dish. It has PYREX embossed on the inside of the base, so it is slightly higher than the rest of the surface. So when I spoon anything out of the dish, I get an awful scraping noise.

I swear the pyrex of my childhood didn't have this issue. It was probably (sensibly) on the outside.

Scissors. Which is not all that helpful when the scissors are in the packet you are trying to open

There’s a Michael McIntyre sketch about this.

@purrswhileheeats

What about opening a cardboard packet of tablets? Doesn't matter which end you open, it always has the bloody leaflet wrapped around the blister pack!

I've been experimenting with this (bored? me? surely not!). I find that if I open it at the end of the box that has the most writing / colour on it, it's usually the 'correct' end. Please try it next time, I hope it works for you too!

My Kindle.

I love it but it has a major design fault. The on/off button is at the bottom, so when lying down reading I inadvertently switch it off with my belly quite regularly.

Drives me bananas.