I'll just come right out and say it.
I can't get the wrapping off of soda straws anymore.
Seriously. Did they suddenly make the paper stronger, or what?
Every time I get a straw from McDonald's or Eros or Speedway, I can't seem to open the straws anymore. You know how you just whip the wrapping off? Can't do it.
I usually end up having to tear a path all the way around the straw, then shove both pieces off but that only works about one in three. The other times I have to literally peel the paper or plastic off the straw all the way down.
I don't know why - I'm certainly not too weak (I can carry a good sized suitcase all the way through the airport, no problem). I should be able to handle a straw.
This just happened to me, over the past four or five weeks. But I've been unable to simply open up a soda straw.
Very odd. And very frustrating. It's like my brain just won't let me open one.
Sigh.
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Well, the good news is that of all the things people start losing the ability do to as they get older? If given a list, and that one was on it, I'd probably pick that one. :)
Uh...I know I'm in California and all and we don't have the same food chains, but I really don't think I'd feel comfortably eating at a place called "Eros". Though the uniforms for the serving girls could be interesting...
Wait...delayed joke...
"Well, I guess you DON'T suck."
(get it?)
Uhhhhh...
No.
I don't get it.
Oh, well. Yeah, I thought the same thing on Eros when Maggie introduced me to the place. It's basically a coffee shop with darn good food for a reasonable price.
Oh.
Never mind, I got it.
Sheesh - getting slow in my old age.
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