The phrase 'Catch-22' was designed for this domestic conundrum. How, when designing the packaging for a pair of scissors, do the company expect their customers to access the product they have purchased when the very tool they require to achieve such a goal is the very thing they are trying to reach? Quite frankly, its mind boggling insanity where at the only solutions are either, to scan the knife draw and decide which kitchen utensil is most up for the task of breaking into the packaging equivalent of Fort Knox, or rifle through the house to find the pair you'd originally lost which, if found, would make buying the new pair a complete waste of both time and money.
1. The Corner Of The Bed Sheet
The bastion of exasperating occurrences is the relentless battle with the corner of the bed sheet. Bare mattress is an ugly sight reserved only for bed shops and movies about kidnap where the hostage is put in a bare room with nothing but a dirty unmade bed on the floor as furnishing. Making a bed is an aggravating task at the best of times. However, when you find yourself stretched out like a cat over a bathtub trying to tuck each corner of your sheet around the mattress and the corner you just made decides to ping off at the exact moment you get the opposite side tucked in, its infuriating. My only advice is to take the time to do the job well. Anchor your sheet in tight because the frustration will be amplified ten fold when you're woken up in the middle of the night because the sheet has pinged off and whipped you in the face. I've learned from experience that, try as you might to fix it, once this has occurred you've either got to live with it or completely remake the bed. You could just go crazy if you don't. Like this article? Let us know in the comments below.
