I Thought Sellotape Dispensers Were Supposed To Make Life Easier

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We've all seen them haven't we? Those cute little plastic sellotape dispensers. Yesterday, in buying all those decorations in The Range I decided to buy some sellotape as well. You only live once. Haha! John spotted a 3-pack and all the dispensers had sellotape in. "That should last us about 5 years," I thought to myself. Anyway, after tea tonight I decided to wrap up my brother's Adidas pants I bought him a while back with some awesome paper I've had for years! I opened up the 3-pack of sellotape dispensers and tried using one of them. The grated thingy at the end WOULDN'T CUT THE SELLOTAPE! All that happened was the tape went all crinkly and out of shape without being cut. Drove me nuts. In fact, I even tried to grate my finger on the serrated edge ON PURPOSE just to see how sharp it was. The bloody thing wouldn't cut butter it was so poor. I know that Health and Safety is important and we don't want fingers chopped off..but, for heaven's sake..Christmas is stressful and we all want to wrap presents up as quickly as possible. A sellotape dispenser that doesn't work properly FROM DAY ONE isn't my idea of a stress-free wrapping experience. I tried the other two, exactly the same. Grrr! Fortunately, we had another sellotape dispenser from the lovely W H Smith (who specialise in such equipment) so John put one of the new sellotapes into the W H Smith dispenser and.. 'Voila!' It worked perfectly. The serrated edge actually cut the sellotape like it should do. Fancy that! I don't mind buying cheap tat but whenever tat doesn't work I get really cross. How about you?