HINTS FROM HELOISE:
Frustration is in the bag.
Dear Readers:
Today’s Sound Off comes from a reader whose frustrations center around the bags inside breakfast-cereal boxes. Jim S. in Houston wrote: “One of my pet peeves is the difficulty in opening plastic bags inside boxed items such as cereal. One would think that in this technological age, someone would have figured out how to make easy-to-open bags. Do you have any solution other than scissors?”
Jim, the best solution I have is scissors, because it’s only sometimes that “the powers that be” are on your side and these bags can be easily opened. Since that’s a rarity, your best bet is scissors.