2005jul10. I bought some nectarines. They have those damned little fruit stickers on them with the number that tells you if it’s organic or not (but really, just look at the price). Some farms have been adding a little nib to the sticker to make it easier to grab and keep photos of your be-stickered colon wall off the internet. So. You know about those price tag stickers that have little cuts in them, right? To delay would-be shoplifters for an extra few seconds, therefore preventing uninvited store inventory loss? Some extremely wise person at the nectarine farm thought it would be a good idea to use the same technology on their stickers, because of all the fruit theft. “How can we make those little fruit stickers ... even more annoying?” This stupid idea is going to spread until we’re all picking at each individual piece of fruit forever to make sure we get every last bit of sticker residue off of it. Yay, technology.
