One of the innovations I’ve noticed this year is the flip-top pour spout. I first noticed it on the Texas Pete hot sauce I keep handy. Instead of the screw off top and then shake and hope you don’t drop it under the refrigerator, there is this flip top gadget.
Pretty clever and convenient. Then I notice that the mustard container has one. The toothpaste tube has one. Several different containers that squirt, have this new flip top pour spout.
Like the tab top instead of using a church key or a can opener or the zip top bag. Everyday someone somewhere is experimenting with new ideas of how we can open and reseal frustrating items.
In this period of inflation, don’t know how much more an item cost with this new invention. I don’t know who came up with the idea, but I’m sure there is a pattern. There seems to be variations, but with the popularity of this flip-top, someone is making money.
This is just one of the many changes that happen and we just get used to them. Buttons are still on the same side; shoe laces still tie the same way and hopefully the flush toilet still works the same way. Though the telephone has gone from a pay-booth calling an operator with an extension cord to annoying buzzer in your pocket, televisions has become bigger with better resolution and more selections are still boring.
Changes will continue long after we are gone, because we are a curious creature full of notions at the wonder of our natural surrounds. Can we make it faster? Louder? Taller? Should we go where no one else has ever been, just to say we’ve been there and you ought to see it?
If change is so good, why do we remembrance over the good ole days and talk so fondly about the way things used to be. Remember the time before you had a car? Remember the days filled with sitting in a classroom being bored out of your mind and daydreaming about the sunny day? Remember the freedom before you had children? Remember walking home in the rain without an umbrella?
How many times have you changed your dishes? How many times have you changed your automobiles? How many times have you changed your appliances? How many times have you changed your sheets? How many times have you changed your phone? How many times have you changed your partner?
What do you save? Granny’s tea kettle though you don’t drink tea? Your father’s musky ties waiting for them to become retro? Uncle Jake’s old car you plan to someday get running again? Your children’s drawings that used to be on the refrigerator but are stuffed away in a box in the attic? Old love letters where if read today have entirely different meanings?
As fall appears and the temperature drops and the leaves fall in colors, notice the changes around you. Then remember your memories during the holidays.
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