Damnit all. I made several mistake on Bad Product Design — Liquid Detergent.

The title should read Liquid Detergent Container instead of Liquid Detergent.

This was not a Costco discount brand. The company’s name is Tide.

The other thing is that it isn’t even liquid detergent. The container houses powdered pellets which may make it somewhat more justifiable to have a container that it is difficult to pour. In my defense, the product was completely new to me and we have been using liquid detergent for something like 20 years. So it is Bob’s fault really. Now that I pinned it on someone else I feel a lot better.

What brought this on was I had difficulty lugging the damn thing from our garage to our landing which is 30 plus steps away for a 66 year old man. That’s right a 66 year old man climbing 30 plus stairs. Just keep that in mind. Its an important part of the emotional vibe I wanted to give to the story. Any way, by the time I reached the landing I was pissed. Someone had to pay for my pain so I decided to go after the Product Designers of this container. I know that this isn’t pretty and you may be just a tad distrustful of someone who lets his emotions run riot like that. I hope that time heals all wounds and I can regain your trust.

I view this as a lesson. I obviously should have done more research on this before putting fingers to keyboard. What’s funny is I was concerned enough to go to the detergent container to test if I remembered correctly about it being difficult to pour. You would think I would have noticed that it wasn’t liquid detergent then but what can’t say I just might not be as keen of an observer as I thought.

I do stand by my criticism that the container is difficult to carry for any distance.

My vow to you, Faithful Reader, is I will probably try harder to research the facts in the future. The key word there is probably. I will try. But I have to be honest with you if it gets too difficult to research, I might risk it especially if I feel particularly perturbed about something. So don’t say I didn’t warn you when you see me groveling like this in a month or so.