Dear Costco and Crest, we ran out of this product and my husband brought home the 2 pack. Relief was seconds away, no bad breath for me…until I realized the plastic. WHY???? Do you not want your customers actually using your product?
Those of you who know me personally, or have been reading my blog for awhile, know I’m plastically challenged. Hey, don’t make fun…it’s a more common condition than you realize.
Looking at the connector **SIGH** Now how am I going to get that off…
I tried tugging slightly and no budge. I thought, oh, twist off both caps and then the plastic lifts right off the bottles easily. Nope. (which by the way, isn’t a bad idea Crest) However, with the current bottle design, all the product would be sloshed out of the containers. Caps back on…scratch my head…wiggled them a bit more and knocked over my son’s legos. OH, crap! Please don’t let any of the teeny-tiny pieces have broken off, my son will kill me! Whew, all intact, close call.
**Hey, wait…***
How ’bout we use the lego to ‘blast’ off the plastic?
Shoot the darn legos cost so much, they should be able to do something like that, right? I willed it to be, but the trooper just sat there.
Scissors were tried, nope…barely made an indentation, no cut.
Realization set in, they actually want you to tug that thing over the top. Those sharp looking inside edges are apparently supposed to stretch over the thickness of the bottle and ridges. With what machine? I don’t think the “rubber husband” will work on that. (you know, the item that helps women open jars) With much struggle, I was able to pop one side up over a time. So much work for just one bottle…CRAP…no wonder they are plastic bottles. People frickin’ throw ‘em across the room in frustration!
I had to put myself on a time-out…retreat to my blog. I’m off to tackle bottle number 2 now. Blasted Plastic! I do not like you, but you WILL NOT WIN. Where’s my battle gear? I better find GOLD inside…
Hilarious post. And that wasn’t even the “child safety” packaging. Yikes.
It’s idiot proof… prooving we all look like idiots trying to figure out how to remove the darn thing…and the grimaces we make.
Oh how retarded. Why do they make it so hard to get into? Is someone going to pour it into their 20oz bottle and run off with free mouthwash!? Maybe you are to get a lighter and melt it off?
jk, please don’t try that lol
Well, I don’t think this one has “alcohol” in it…but burning plastic is never a good thing.
That is called Conehead’s style packaging. “Consume mass quanities.” Costco has it down to a science. Shouldn’t really apply to mouthwash though, unless you have some horrible halitosis.
Don’cha you mean “bonehead?”
This, right here, is one reason I always have a pocket knife. That and I’m country.
The plastic industry obviously has powerful lobbyists. I avoid it as much as I possibly can.
Hilarious! I thought this was going to end in you breaking out the blow torch and melting that son of a gun, but I’m glad it didn’t. That would be dangerous.
Oh, Brad (tsk, tsk) I’d end up torchin’ my own eye brows or somethin’- of course that’s dangerous…if I’m plastically challenged, how do you think I’d be with any sort of torch? But thanks for the idea! BTW, thanks for stopping in!
Hope to see more of you on the boards. Will swing by your place in a sec.
I applaud you for your perseverance! I’d probably have damaged the bottles before figuring out how to remove that weird contraption..or just emptied it into another container..!
I wonder if wire cutters would work? I actually can work those connectors…but you should see me with the plastic blister packs that are made from the thick plastic and sealed all the way around. I almost always cut myself on the plastic as I cut through it with scissors.