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George Shirley

wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:27:00 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>> On Mon 12 Jan 2009 07:50:20a, Wilson told us...
>>
>>> Perhaps this has been everywhere by now, but it was news to me & thought
>>> I'd share it.
>>>
>>> Subject: Fw: I can't believe I never knew this
>>>
>>> A friend sent me this. It was news to me! My foil
>>> had
>>> this, but my waxed paper did not.
>>>
>>> Don't you all even try and act like you all ready
>>> knew
>>> this either.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I had to go into the kitchen and check this out for
>>> myself. Whoever looks at the end of your aluminum foil box? You know
>>> when you try to pull some foil out and the roll comes out of the box.
>>> Then you have to put the roll back in the box and start over. The darn
>>> roll always comes out at the wrong time.
>>>
>>> Well, I would like to share this with you.
>>> Yesterday I
>>> went to throw out an empty Reynolds foil box and for some reason I
>>> turned it and looked at the end of the box. And written on the end it
>>> said, Press here to lock end. Right there on the end of the box is a tab
>>> to lock the roll in place. How long has this little locking tab been
>>> there? I then looked at a generic brand of aluminum foil and it had one,
>>> too. I then looked at a box of Saran wrap and it had one too! I can't
>>> count the number of times the Saran wrap roll has jumped out when I was
>>> trying to cover something up.
>>>
>>> I'm sharing this with my friends. I hope I'm not
>>> the
>>> only person that didn't know about this.
>> If it's any consolation, I'm 64 and I only learned this last year. <g>
>
> Took a roll of foil off the shelf and checked the ends yesterday when
> we were in town shopping. Sure enough, there were the little tabs,
> along with the instructions for their use. If I ever looked at the end
> of a box of foil before in my life, I obviously never read it. I
> learned something new and I'm 74 ;-).
>
> Ross.
Wow! Finally someone on rfp who is older than me, I'm only 69. Ain't it
nice to learn something new. Called both my kids, in their mid-forties,
and told them about the tabs, neither of them knew about it. Daughter
called her grown kids and told them and they were amazed.

Wonder why none of us ever noticed this before.