The Agony of Canned Goods

Canned Goods, we all have them and to an extent we actually like some of them.  What a great way to protect and preserve food for long periods of time.  However, there is a dark side that is never talked about in the consumer products market.

Who came up with the way cans balance on top of each other?  There has to be a better way.  Come on, you know what I am talking about.  How many times have you gone to the store to pick up a can of soup and end up having to rearrange aisle 6 because you knocked all the adjoining cans down?  That is just in the store.  How about at home?  How many toes are broken everyday or foot arches bruised in a crescent moon shape?  This may be the sole source of rising Health Care costs.

Having a child I go to the cupboard many times to grab a can.  I always end up performing some kind of polka trying to keep my feet out of the way of a tin bomb wrapped in paper (granted my shelf is 4 ft in the air).  I also have a marble floor so the cans get good and damaged while the floor does not give when one lands on my foot.

Also, do you find that the one can of corn you want happens to be behind all the other cans?  You then have to take out all 47 of them (there were 50 but 3 dropped on the floor) just to get the one you want.  Then you have to put 53 back (3 more hit the floor thus causing you to put back twice). Surely there is someway to interlock each can in perfect unity so that they just swing away while never leaving the adjoining can. 

I know you all feel my pain.  Please write your local congress person and ask for legislation to come up with a remedy so it can save countless band-aids and ice cubes.

I just knocked out the chicken gravy.  Thank goodness it was glass. 8O

Grim