My Newest Pet Peeve

One of my major pet peeves is that styrofoam packing stuff you find in your shipped packages. Sure, it keeps your breakables intact, but the stuff is unmerciful in it's ability to make it's way out of the box and create a mess everywhere. Something I could definitely live without.

Well, I've discovered something worse. It has a smaller, bee bee-sized cousin that is apparently used to stuff items such as one of those lap desk pillows. Pillows that some genius manufacturer chose to close with nothing more than a zipper. A zipper that would be very attractive to a curious 2 year old. And what could be even more attractive to said 2 year old would be the delightful discovery that you could unzip the side of this pillow and find a treasure of 6 trillion little styrofoam balls inside. Little syrofoam balls that had, just a few moments before, fit into a small 18 x 18 inch pillow, but now miraculously had the ability to coat the furniture, floor, and everything in between, of a normal-sized family den.

Another mystifying fact would be that, while it only took about 2 seconds to pour those little things out of the pillow, it took about 2 hours to clean them up. And considering the fact that I am still finding them a day later, 2 days would actually be a more accurate assessment.