When I'm traveling, as I am, many things annoy. Consistently, I find these little round bars of soap
most annoying.
I have to open them up in the morning, before I've had coffee, before my fingers have once again become nimble. And they are designed to resist removal of their covering in the most ingenious way: The cover is also round and bound together in the middle with glue that won't give itself up easily. And no tab is provided to allow the big fat fingers to grab hold and tear the paper off. It's as though the hotel decided your day should start wrong, with an annoying, challenging mechanical task before your mind is ready to deal with it. It's unfair. Now I have to get into the shower...
Soap-on-a-rope is designed just for this reason. When you travel just wear it under your shirt.
Posted by: David Tommela | May 15, 2006 at 08:52 AM