I have come to the conclusion that our whole merchandising system is backwards. Why is it that when you go to a store such as Walmart and buy 10 items you end up leaving the store with 5 or more flimsy plastic bags? Why can they not make the bags big enough to actually hold something? Think this is enough to piss the hair off a gorilla? Well, your troubles just began. You are leaving the store and the Fu%^&^# bag breaks because they are made so poorly. It don't require rocket science to make a decent and usable bag. In fact when I was much younger, I remember paper bags. Yes, they actually made grocery store bags out of paper. They were strong, large enough to hold a lot of stuff, did not require oil to manufacture, and they were biodegradable. So, if they could make good bags back then, why can't they do it anymore?
But, thats just the introduction to the ultimate "piss off". This particular piss off happens when someone goes to a lumber yard and/or most hardware stores and buys some bulk nails. OK, I was just complaining about plastic bags, so I suppose I should be happy when they put my 5 lbs of nails in a brown paper bag. WRONG. In this case, I want plastic. Strong, and Clear plastic. Do you know what it's like when you've accumulated 25 brown paper bags of nails, and want to find the bag that contains the 10d commons? Lets waste the next 10 minutes going thru each bag. Actually, on second thought, lets waste the next hour and a half, because at least one of those paper bags is bound to rip open spilling nails all over the garage floor under the car tires and under the bench and God only knows where else they all landed.
So you finally find the nails you're looking for, and get back to work on your new deck. It's getting late in the day because you spent the last 2 hours sorting nail bags and cleaning up from all the bags that broke. The dew is starting to set in for the night, and you are rushing to put down the last few deck boards. You discover your nail pouch is empty so you rush over to the completed end of the deck to reload your pouch from that bag of nails you just spent 2 hours to find. You stick you hand in the bag and the bag disintegrates upon touching it, because the dew moistened the bottom of the bag. The entire contents of the bag are now half on top of your deck, and the other half fell thru the cracks in the deck and are gone forever unless you want to crawl in the mud under the deck picking them up one by one.
You soon find yourself working in the dark, cussing because you dont have enough nails to complete the job because they are mostly all under the deck in the mud and you can hear a rumble of thunder in the distance.
About that moment, you get the urge to jump in the pickup drive to the lumber yard where you bought the nails and beat the fu*% out of the store manager prior to buying more nails. Unfortunately they are closed. About that moment it starts to rain so you rush around picking up your tools and other materials. Thats when you pick up that brown bag full of large spikes that you used earlier in the day to make the frame. As you pick up that wet bag, you watch in slow motion as all the spikes scatter and fall thru the cracks in the decking.
Who is the fu*%ing idiot that decided that nails go in brown paper bags, and yet use plastic bags for darn near everything else. Is this the same fu*%ing idiot that designed the boxes for the pre-packaged nails? You know, those 1 LB and 5 LB boxes made of paper thin cardboard with a clear cellophane window in the box. You know, those boxes where the bottom always falls out, either before, or after the cellophane window breaks spilling nails out from both the window and the bottom of the box in unison.
If anyone knows this guy, please post his name and complete address. I'm sure most of us would like to deposit a few broken boxes and paper bags of roofing nails right outside his front door, with the points sticking UP.
Mark