Bertine ([info]bertine) wrote,
@ 2008-10-06 09:59:00
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Singlehood
In my short list of things I don't like about being single I have another one:

5. Having no one to open jars for me. I broke my hand a long time ago and I have a weak grip with it. This is usually fine except I don't remember where I put the vice-grips and last night I had to knock on my neighbor's door to ask them if they could open my bottle.


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[info]heathrow
2008-10-06 03:07 pm UTC (link)
Oh, sweetie. :/

Aren't the little things the worst?

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[info]bertine
2008-10-06 03:11 pm UTC (link)
I don't really mind being single so much, it is just stupid things like that. It wasn't even that important, I could have skipped it.

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[info]heathrow
2008-10-06 03:12 pm UTC (link)
I keep a little rubber disc in my drawer that helps with the jars when the "bang on the counter" trick doesn't work.

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[info]bertine
2008-10-06 05:04 pm UTC (link)
I should get one of those. I don't have too much of an issue with regular jars. It is more with the narrow little soda bottles with screw tops.

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[info]absenthine
2008-10-06 03:10 pm UTC (link)
Here's an easy-peasy single girl trick for opening jars:

Most really tricky jar lids have a seal of wax around the inside, and once you break that seal, the lid opens easily. I hold the jar so that the lid is perpendicular to the edge of my kitchen counter. Then, I bang the lid, at a 45-degree angle to the counter (i.e. so the point of the side of the lid hits the counter) until I break the seal. Sometimes, you have to rotate the jar lid around until you feel the seal break. This process resembles the process of banging the lid back on a can of paint a little.

This works for jars that have already been opened, too, but not quite as well. But since you're the only person in your house, hopefully you don't put lids on so tight that you can't get them open again.

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[info]bertine
2008-10-06 03:13 pm UTC (link)
Actually this was a bottle of Target Blood Orange Italian Soda. So it was a glass bottle with a narrow neck and I just can't get my hand to grip hard when something is that narrow. Hence the vice-grips that usually live in my kitchen drawer.

I can usually get regular jars open using pretty much the same technique as you described above.

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[info]frozenrhino
2008-10-06 03:15 pm UTC (link)
I'd have helped you open that.

And quality check it. =)

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[info]bertine
2008-10-06 05:03 pm UTC (link)
It is so good. I love that stuff.

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[info]absenthine
2008-10-06 03:17 pm UTC (link)
blood orange Italian soda? yum!

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[info]bertine
2008-10-06 05:03 pm UTC (link)
Yeah. Target has it and I love it.

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[info]avecvu
2008-10-06 03:32 pm UTC (link)
Haven't you ever seen that episode of the Cosby Show where Sandra opens the jar of pickles for her mom, after both her dad and Elvin fail?

Hit the top of the jar against the counter a couple of times, it loosens the top. :)

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[info]bertine
2008-10-06 05:02 pm UTC (link)
But then I would have had soda all over my kitchen!

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[info]avecvu
2008-10-06 05:03 pm UTC (link)
But at least the bottle would have been open.

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[info]bertine
2008-10-06 05:04 pm UTC (link)
LOL. My cats would have licked up the mess. :P

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[info]elphabachan
2008-10-06 05:29 pm UTC (link)
Yeek. That sounds unpleasant. I always pinch the nerves in my had when I try to open stubborn jars.

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[info]ciannait
2008-10-06 06:38 pm UTC (link)
We use our rubber-handled can opener handle to open problem bottles and jars.

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[info]goobermaster
2008-10-06 09:09 pm UTC (link)
I use the fist hiding under my beard, like Chuck Norris.

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[info]phaedie
2008-10-07 09:58 pm UTC (link)
Girl buys rubber gloves, girl no longer needs man for silly job.

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