New Knife

[gfish]

Since I was in a town with an REI, and I still had some dividend left over, I stopped by this afternoon to replace my stolen knife. I hadn't been following Leatherman advances for the last few years, so I was pleased to see that the Charge XT/XTi duality has been replaced with the TTi -- exactly the same, but now it has scissors and the nylon-webbing cutting hook. No longer am I forced to choose between the convenience of scissors and the haunting image of sawing frantically with the normal blade at the seatbelt of someone trapped in a burning car!

However, I was almost reduced to tears trying to get it open. How do you open the packaging of a new knife if you don't already have one? I felt like I was failing at being human, pawing ineffectively at the plastic barrier. Give me back my tools, dammit! Next time I fly I'm taking a chunk of obsidian, just in case this happens again.

Comments

[najalaise.livejournal.com]

Hee! This reminds me of being a young teen. I spent a fair bit of time sketching out an obsidian-and-bone airport-friendly knife.

[ivy]

I had that same moment with my new multitool. I took nail scissors to it eventually, but damn.

[lostmachine.livejournal.com]

I've used my bandsaw more than once to get into stupid plastic blister packaging. I love buying old machining tools that still come in small cardboard boxes.

[edith-mf.livejournal.com]

I agree that packaging is evil, and gives a wicked version of a "paper cut."

[caladri.livejournal.com]

I just wish Leatherman weren't making tools now which could very well get broken by opening the plastic packaging on other Leatherman tools. Still bitter about my squirt breaking. Humbug.

tools..

[gandzha.livejournal.com]

.. break a 'ring' from a can of soda, attach to leatherman case and use it to catch and open those deeply buried blades. Cheers!

Re: tools..

[caladri.livejournal.com]

Coins work better in my experience.

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

I would link the Penny Arcade where they're using an industrial laser to open a blister pack, but I can never successfully find any archived PA because they haven't got a proper indexing system.

[arjache.livejournal.com]

The trick is searching the wiki (http://pennyarcade.wikia.com/wiki/September_30,_2002) with all the transcripts on it: Those Goddamn Containers (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/09/30/)

[tfabris.livejournal.com]

See, that's the kind of thing they should leverage directly on their web site somehow.

:-)

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

plastic packaging sucks!