The Baltimore Sun Kevin Cowherd column: 'X' marks spot for opening blister packs. From: The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) | Date: May 22, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 The Baltimore Sun. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Kevin Cowherd

May 22--Regular readers know what we do best in this space is whine, whining being the default mode of most newspaper columnists. But today we offer real help - not that this is anything you should expect on a regular basis. Today we follow up on a column from two weeks ago about the difficulty in opening blister packs, the clear plastic packaging that seems to encase just about every product these days.

In that column, I whined about having to hack these stupid blister packs open with a scissors or kitchen knife, and how you could slash your ...

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