5. Plastic Shell Anti-Theft Packaging

I think everyone knows what I'm talking about here - that maddening plastic shell packaging that almost everything comes in these days - you buy something like new earphones (my most recent encounter) and they've enveloped it in an impenetrable plastic tomb, laser-welded around the edges, which provides the added benefit of razor sharpness and, consequently, painful lacerations to the whole new product experience - just what the purveyors of the good were going for I'm sure... Honestly, manufacturers have to know how maddening it is to try and open those things, but do they care? NO! Let's save a few cents per item by detracting the fraction of a percent of the population that's dishonest, and alienate all our other customers who now equate our brand with bloody fingers and insane frustration!

...The only tool I know of that can reliably penetrate this device is a chainsaw - so I went online and ordered one, and when it came - wouldn't you know it, it was packaged in a razor sharp plastic shell...