Cutting edge irony

Life is full of irritations, some minor, some major. Among the more innocuous of these daily trials and tribulations is the present fad of sealing small household goods for sale between two transparent sheaths of nigh indestructible plastic. It's obvious benefit is to make the contents visible, whilst still offering them a degree of protection. The down side is the need to fight tooth and claw with the packaging in order to prise the contents free. Even the addition of bladed implements seems to only slightly lessen the amount of effort required.

Having fought with mine own tooth and claw to free a door handle from it's accursed packaging earlier today (it was a long and arduous battle in which blood was spilled), I decided that enough was enough and took myself off to the nearest diy store in order purchase a decent pair of plastic hacking scissors (a machete would probably have been more appropriate, but I'd lost enough blood already). I found the scissors. Each pair encased in exactly the sort of malevolent plastic casing I required the scissors to hack through. Whomever designs such product packaging is not without a sense of humour, it seems...