Cutting Corners - to cut or not to cut?

Corners well cut:

- Super thin plastic spoons, as used in canteens.  Fine for drinking soup, but with rice, the weight is too much.  The spoon loses rigidity and then wobbles around. 

- Super thin plastic disposable cups, as sold in Carrefour.  Fine for cold water, but hot water tends to disfigure the plastic in a worrying fashion.

- Hollow metal bike parts.  As issued by bike repair men, and as standard on my new Forever bike.  Parts such as bolts, and bike pedal bolts, are made of hollow metal, with the result that after a heavy period of use they shear and fall off.  Maybe I’m not gentle enough when I’m riding.

 

One cut too far…  (of course, these are isolated, rare incidents – not representative!)

- Hand towels in the office washroom dispenser, that tear when try to pull one down, if your hands are wet.  Doh!

- Bendy straws as issued with fruit juices and cocktails at the up-market 239 restaurant.  The plastic is so thin, that bending the straw in the way you’d expect to, leaks air in to the straw, rendering it useless.

- restaurants in their re-use of paper chopstick sleeves.  It’s worrying when you pull damp chopsticks out of these re-used chopstick sleeves.  It’s also annoying when we eat in such places and forget to bring our own chopsticks…