Pro-tip: new rolls come with a little paper tab on the end of the tape to make it easy to find the start. One you’ve removed that, started the roll, and you’re ready to put the roll away, throw it away instead and get a new roll next time.
The super-thin tapes are the worst, can’t even feel the edge.
I never remember to fold the end over, either. That’s a future-me problem, like a minute from now.
bane of my existence right there
Jokes on you!
*Pulls out pocket knife*
Until the tape rips diagonally as you pull it up with just a sliver left on the edge that hangs on
Glad I have this extra roll right here where I’ll just slap a strip over where it sheered diagonally and force it back to true.
*Pulls out pocket knife again because I can’t find the line on the extra roll*
If my grandfather taught me anything, it was the importance of knowing when to start over, as long as you persist, until it’s done right.
The trick is to leave a tiny bend at the end to easily pull it out next time.
I’m perpetually amazed that cheap packing tape is so bad, “optimized” to the point of becoming almost, but not quite, completely useless. And the good packing tape costs so much, considering it’s just a one-time-use strip of plastic. It’s a little thicker than the cheap stuff, it costs ~5x as much. Worth it, I guess. Ugh.
Maybe, in the best possible future, we’ve moved away from tape entirely.
Love is like a roll of tape
It’s real good for making two things one
But just like that roll of tape
Love sometimes breaks off before you are done
Another way that love is similar to tape
That I’ve noticed
Is sometimes, it’s hard to see the end
You search 'round the roll
You search 'round the roll
You search 'round the roll
With your fingernail
Again and again and again and again
And again
