And Today's Naughty Step Occupant Is....

[gness]

...the numpty who loosened all the tops on the bottles of Screen Wash on the bottom shelf and removed the seals.........

And guess who picked up the first bottle?

Luckily I have small hands so I picked it up by the top and the bottle dropped to the floor...and my feet.....otherwise it'd have gone into my trolley sideways.....

Mind you.....if I knew who it was I'd have asked how they removed the seals.....I had to take a pointy knife to get into the bottle I took home........ :-)

[rowanwitch]

Sounds more like a failed batch from the packing plant. Lucky it wasn't oil

[gness]

Too loose, Rowan...they'd have spilled long before making the shelf.....x

[Buenchico]

I also suspect a packing error. A possible scenario . . .

Manager Ann: "Right you lot. Quality control have found out that some bottles haven't had the seals attached, so I need you to go through all of the bottles over there and check them. If you find any with missing seals, put them on that pallet over there but leave the tops loose because they've allgot to go back through the sealing machine".

Later in the day, when Ann has gone home . . .

Manager Bob: "What on earth is that pallet doing there? Ruddy Ann ought to know better than to leave stuff taking up space. Get it loaded onto a delivery lorry straight away!"

[Buenchico]

I am reminded of the numpty who designed Avon's Tai Winds aftershave packaging (c 1980). The images across the top of this page illustrate what I mean:
https://picclick.com/Avon-Tai-Winds-After-Shave-Whale-Oil-Lantern-162425394538.html

People who received the aftershave as a Christmas gift (as I did) got it in box which illustrated a lantern (as in pics 1 & 2). However on opening the box you found that there was actually a bottle (pic 3) with a push-on top (pic 4) which made it look like a lantern.

Those recipients then fitted the two together but possibly waited many months before going to use the aftershave. By then they'd completely forgotten that the top part was only a push-fit and so picked the lantern up by the top (which is the perfectly natural way to pick a lantern up).

That meant that the heavy glass bottle rapidly departed company from the top, causing it to fall into the sink below it, putting a crack right through it.

When I mentioned to my next door neighbour that I'd claimed on my buildings insurance for a new sink, he said "I wish I'd thought of that when a falling bottle of Tai Winds aftershave broke my sink a few months ago!"

If it happened to me and to my next door neighbour, how many hundreds (or possibly thousands) of other people did it happen to as well?

[Buenchico]

https://tinyurl.com/hz2gd5w

;-)

[aelmpvw]

good job it was aftershave, gness would have covered her bathroom floor with broken glass

[rowanwitch]

Serves you right for buying naff aftershave, but I can definitely imagine that scenario.