By Daniel Neman
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I seem to have touched a nerve.
Two weeks ago, I wrote a column about how hard it can be to open tight jars and plastic bags. Then, to be perfectly honest, I more or less forgot about it.
But it turns out, I and the 89-year-old reader who first emailed me about the problems she was having were not alone in our tight-jar difficulties. We were not alone at all.
“How about those White Castle mustard packets with greasy fingers? Impossible!” wrote one reader.
”I had a bottle of Bufferin I couldn’t open. I finally put it in a Ziploc bag and backed my car over it. The ‘headache powders’ never did help my arthritis,” wrote another, and I choose to believe that he was serious.
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