Singlehood

[bertine]

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.

Comments

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

Oh, sweetie. :/

Aren't the little things the worst?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

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.

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

I keep a little rubber disc in my drawer that helps with the jars when the "bang on the counter" trick doesn't work.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

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.

[absenthine.livejournal.com]

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.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

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.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

It is so good. I love that stuff.

[absenthine.livejournal.com]

blood orange Italian soda? yum!

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Target has it and I love it.

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

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. :)

[bertine.livejournal.com]

But then I would have had soda all over my kitchen!

[avecvu.livejournal.com]

But at least the bottle would have been open.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

LOL. My cats would have licked up the mess. :P

[elphabachan.livejournal.com]

Yeek. That sounds unpleasant. I always pinch the nerves in my had when I try to open stubborn jars.

[ex-ciannait.livejournal.com]

We use our rubber-handled can opener handle to open problem bottles and jars.

[slyefox.livejournal.com]

I use the fist hiding under my beard, like Chuck Norris.

[phaedie.livejournal.com]

Girl buys rubber gloves, girl no longer needs man for silly job.