Why I Hate America, Pt. x, where x \in, uh, the countably infinite natural numbers (N?)

[fflo]

Before I could get an aspirin out of the new package last night, I had to

1. open the glued-shut box

2. take out the plastic bottle

3. remove the plastic "protective"¹ wrap around the cap

4. do the childproof² lining-up-arrow and popping lid opening

5. find a knife and pierce the "protective"³ foil seal

6. wedge my fingers in there and remove the little bits it breaks into, while
6a. steeling myself against potential personal phobic gross-out, cuz of which I was also
6b. trying to get all the little bits off of it while minimizing time spent on the job

7. reach fingertips into narrow opening and pull out protective⁴ cotton.

I won't even get into issues of wasted resources/work, trash, and culturally perpetuated paranoia.

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¹ Bullshit!
² yeah, right
³ Bullshit!
⁴ protects the aspirin from damage, for without it the pills would rattle around quite a lot, cuz, even before you've removed a one, they fill at most a third of the volume of the bottle