On Wed 14 Jan 2009 01:02:50p, George Shirley told us...

> 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.
>

It's sort of a combination of taking something for granted or assuming the
not so obvious, and "who'd a thunk it?"

--
Wayne Boatwright
(correct the spelling of "geemail" to reply)
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