May 1st, 2008
Husband and I got stood up for dinner tonight – we were expecting guests who just never showed, didn’t answer their phones, and didn’t call. Either something bad happened (in which case all is forgiven) or they’re, well, pretty darn rude.
Anyway, I was consoling myself with a few extra bites of the dinner I made, when I noticed for the first time that there are instructions on the Saran Wrap box.
Okay. I guess it makes sense to have instructions on anything that is a tool, but ya know… it struck me as really weird that someone would need to have the purpose of Saran Wrap pointed out to them. If you didn’t know what it does, why did you buy it? What exactly did you think you were getting?
It’s not like people shop by wandering aisle to aisle reading instruction labels and then deciding if they should buy a thing or not.
My first thought is that it may be a liability issue. They don’t want to come right out and say things like “not to be used as a prophylactic” or “does not prevent government satellites from reading your mind – try tinfoil”.
I’m with Lara on this. The instructions are there in case anyone tries to stuff the roll in their mouth and then sue that they nearly suffocated.