“If it ain’t broke, don’t
fix it”. My hats off to whoever coined
this phrase. It should be hanging over
every engineer’s and designer’s desk as a reminder. If your company is hounding you to perform
with the talent you wrote about in your resume, please do so, but don’t monkey
with stuff that already is working quite well for me.
For example: Since Marge and I have a salad almost every
day for dinner so I am quite familiar with the dressings available in the
market and have a few favorites I use on a regular basis, but always willing to
try others. Recently I was attracted to
a bottle of Italian dressing by Kraft that was plastered with labels that told
me it was “New”. Ok, time to try because
my beautiful salad and precisely timed dinner was waiting for the application
of this new delight. Well, easier said
than done. Some idiot decided to wrap
the top with some sort of indestructible plastic. All I wanted to do was release the little
flip top and taste my new found dressing.
I tried to turn it to break the seal. No luck. Well, let’s see if my fingernail will do it. Still no luck. I next tried plyers. You guessed it, no luck. Ahah! I think I may be able to use a razor
knife. Even that was still unable to
remove the now famous indestructible plastic.
Took the razor knife and slit it across the top tab…….success
finally. I flipped the top and prepared to
pour it on my now wilting greenery.
Wait! I see another problem. Since I usually have a bunch of bottles of
dressing with small amounts in them, quite often I remove the top plastic tab
and combine several of the partial accumulated dressings so to create a brand
new culinary delight. Mr. “New” design
won’t let me do it using this bottle.
The same idiot, I have no doubts, decided to widen the top insert and
also made the pouring hole bigger…I guess he decided it wasn’t coming out fast
enough.
I know it’s silly for me
to get pissed over such a small event, but there are many other examples of
changes being made that are not improvements to the item or function. I did, however, think of one recent change
that I can soundly applaud. The change
has probably saved me a great deal of future arthritic pain in the fingers of my
right hand With my recent vehicle
purchase I no longer need to worry about things like carpel tunnel syndrome due
to the significant strain created by turning the key to start my car….what a
relief. It’s been a real concern for me
over the years and I can’t tell you how excited I am to merely push that big
button and hear the engine engage. I
wonder what my dealer will charge if a replacement is needed. You had to figure there would at least be a
little sarcasm in the blog.
I could really go on and
on, such as the fact that there are probably many starving seniors because they
are unable to open containers of food…..all caused by the bastard that poisoned
Tylenol bottles years ago. Packaging
might be my Blog’s next bitch.
Till then, I remain your
least important author.
Thanks for reading
Bill
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