BAD DESIGN

Reddit asked, “What everyday item is designed poorly, but we all sort of accept it?” Some of the answers:
– “Those ‘convenient’ zip closures they started putting on everything a few years back. 80% of the time, when you rip them open at the little cutouts, it doesn’t even open the bag, so you need scissors.”
– “Soap pumps. The soap is always just far enough away where the pipe can’t reach it.”
– “I own the classic Pyrex glass measuring cup in my kitchen. It has a spout, yet still spills all over the place when you pour from it.”
– “The plastic film over the top of ready-to-eat meals. It always, ALWAYS splits and you can never get all of it off.”
– “Touchless sinks in public don’t stay on long enough to rinse soap off hands.”
– “Air blow hand dryers in public toilets. As far as I can see they do next to nothing.”
– “Clothing labels that are made of materials from hell. Often these have no way of being removed without damaging the garment, so you are left with an eternity of irritation on your neck area from the sharp corners of the label.”
– “Those plastic tabs on new socks, there is ALWAYS part of a tab that gets stuck inside the sock.”
– “Kids’ cups at restaurants. Make the cups wide at the bottom and taper it upwards. Boom, significantly less spills.”
– “The refrigerator ice dispenser shoots pieces of ice onto the floor, no matter how carefully you hold the glass against the unit.”
– “Bacon packaging.”
– “Potato chip bags. Why has the chip industry not converted to simple resealable chip bags?
– “Cereal boxes. Double the waste for no reason. Just use a bag.”
* But not a potato chip bag, obviously.
* Six thousand years of human progress, and we still haven’t got potato chip bags worked out. This should have been fixed by the Mesopotamians.
* Stop complaining. Engineering school is expensive.
* An everyday item that’s designed poorly. Like every version of Windows ever?
* I hate those scratch-off lottery tickets. You scratch and scratch, but they never have winning numbers.
* PHONE TOPIC: What everyday item doesn’t work for you?