They Just Don't Make Quality Anymore
Can anyone tell me what the hell happened to Q-tips?? Eh? Can you?
They used to make them nice and rigid, so when you were cleaning your ears you could really get in there and dig around. Many is the time I nearly popped an ear drum when combining vigorous excavation with muzzy headed sleepyness. Yes, those were the days.
NOW the stupid things have about as much rigidity as al dente pasta, bending in half at the merest hint of pressure. Has our economic climate really sunk so low that Johnson & Johnson needs to alter the polymer formulas used in a lousy buck fifty box of Q-tips?? No doubt some poor team of research chemists and structural engineers spent valuable months of their lives determining exactly how thin the plastic centers could be made before they began to bend under the weight of their own downy cotton ends.
And don't get me started on the fluffiness factor, either. You just don't want to go there.
Seriously.
J
They used to make them nice and rigid, so when you were cleaning your ears you could really get in there and dig around. Many is the time I nearly popped an ear drum when combining vigorous excavation with muzzy headed sleepyness. Yes, those were the days.
NOW the stupid things have about as much rigidity as al dente pasta, bending in half at the merest hint of pressure. Has our economic climate really sunk so low that Johnson & Johnson needs to alter the polymer formulas used in a lousy buck fifty box of Q-tips?? No doubt some poor team of research chemists and structural engineers spent valuable months of their lives determining exactly how thin the plastic centers could be made before they began to bend under the weight of their own downy cotton ends.
And don't get me started on the fluffiness factor, either. You just don't want to go there.
Seriously.
J