One of my pet peeves is excessive or redundant packaging. I'm sure everyone has seen it or experienced "the pain" of it. I could use the soap box of being "green" to rail against it, but in reality it's more of a childhood psychosis.
For as long as I can remember my mom has been a redundant packager. I didn't know this until I was sent to boarding school. Up to this point the things she gave me were unshipped or unmailed. When I lived in the dorm she would send cards with money and care packages. I loved them, but the first few moment of receiving them were always frustrating to me. My mother would cover every package in that clear thin wide tape. Every inch. Literally encasing the package and there never seemed to be a seam sloppy enough assist me in unraveling it.
I often wondered if she was sitting at home. Giggling hysterically thinking of me, face red, steam pouring out of my ears, cursing her when I received the package. When I first saw Family Guy and the character of Stewie I nearly peed my pants because he was the epitome of how I felt about my mother growing up.
Apparently this left me emotionally scarred. Now every time I get a box or letter and someone tapes or otherwise makes it difficult to break into it I feel a case of package rage coming on. I even hate when a person uses one of those inter-office envelopes and despite the little string and button closure they use tape and/or staples to close it. Blister packs and those rigid clear plastic boxes often cause me to swear. Excessive packing materials and those little plastic straps used to hold things on card packaging are "of the devil".
I know as psychosis goes this is a mild one. Probably shared by more people than I would imagine. Does anyone here understand share it?
