In a sheer case of mistaken identity, I received an invite to Tuesday night’s launch party in Boulder for the new Gore-Tex Pro. Naturally, that in itself was pretty cool and we can chat about it later, but this isn’t about that.
It’s more about the bobby pins.
While getting ready, I pulled out a new package of bobby pins that I purchased last week. I’m a huge proponent of this glorious little hair accessory and use them daily….and buy them just as frequently. Chicas, I don’t know about you, but I go through bobby pins like they’re disposable! I lose them, hide them, suck them up in the vacuum cleaner, whatever. The point is that I seem to venture to the store monthly to procure a new pouch of pins.
However, as I grabbed a handful to pull my hair off my face, I noticed an addition to the bobby pin packaging:
Let me focus in a bit for you:
In all that is good on this earth, what in the hell is a bobby pin opener?!
I took to the Instagram to pose this question, and apparently all of y’all had noticed this same thing. The most common response? “I opened the package and threw that thing away.” Seriously, when did it become too much work to use your teeth or, heaven forbid your fingers, to open a bobby pin?
The more I thought about it, this silly contraption makes sense. After all, don’t we live in an era where we tend to overcomplicate simple things on the regular? Buy items that are meant to simplify our lives but only cause more chaos and confusion? Isn’t that the flagship of any infomercial?!
Even more so, I realized that my bobby pin lesson spills into my daily routine, too. I frequently overcomplicate issues at work when they truly just require a simply answer. Do you ever do that?
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