I remember being told that when you pull off the pop can pull tab you wear it on your finger and use it as a nose picker! Some were flat, some curled. I would sit and look at them on my finger and try to imagine why I would use that to pick my nose! I often bent them down so they looked like a real ring and I could put my hand in my pocket. In the '80s the pull tab was replaced with the flip tab, where you couldn't pull them out!
I hadn't seen one of those pull tabs in ages until I was hiking around Chilco Lake with my husband. I was on the trail behind him and stopped to look at the small lake from the rock I was on. I looked down at my feet and there was a NOSE PICKER RING!! I admired it, didn't move it, didn't touch it but captured it with my lens. It has been there almost 30 years, and it is still there today.
1 comment:
I never thought of something as
simple as a aluminium soda can opener in such a observant
manner as you have put forward here.
It makes you think times continues to go by and although you can remember the way it was, I didn't until your observations here.
A simple technology step forward so one wouldn't have a separated "nose picker" from the can to these days one that turns in and stays with the can makes environmental sense and also is safer so one doesn't step on it, 20-30years later.
The person who peeled open that soda can and discarded that nose picker more than likely didn't thing for a second about it. But you have come along and taken this close-up photo shot and made observations that a majority wouldn't take the time of day to reflect over and attach a story too. Well done Elena!
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