How do you open a bottle?  

try running cold water over the lid if not take a wrench or a tool to help

I always tap mine on the counter top. I have never had one break on me. (knock on wood). I have heard of running water over it. but i've never tried that.

Well, you can use a bottle opener, which is kind of like a mousepad, and it will grip it and open it. I like to just tough it out and try to get it open by myself, because it feels like a huge accomplishment!

Hit it on the counter. I started using that after I tried prying it open with a screwdriver and almost took my eye out.

Depends what kind of bottle you're talking about. For most bottles or jars an old trick is to put the top of the bottle or jar under hot running water....it tends to loosen the cap/top and you can twist it open fairly easy then. Sometimes what I do to is carefully run a knife around that perforated sealed area to cut through the peroration...Another trick..LOL...if the bottle top is small enough, place the top of it between a open door, then close the door on the top and twist. I don't have a bottle top opener either, so these are the tricks that seem to work for me

depende, plstic bottle or glass, but not is a problem.....
myryam

If it is too stiff then I would get a better grip by holding the cap/lid with a tea-towel.

If not then I yell for my husband. It makes him feel good when he is useful, even in small ways.

Big strong man to the rescue to help damsel in distress!

All my friends that smoke are quite adept at opening beer bottles with their lighters by using them as a mini pry-bar. I don't carry a lighter, so I'm not so good at it. For bottles like ketchup or other metal screw top bottles or jars, I have found if you strike the top edge of the lid with the back of a butter knife just hard enough to dent the lid a bit, it will break the vacuum seal and make it much easier to open. I do keep a bottle opener in the drawer for beer though; much easier to use (especially by my third or fourth beer!).

I use a metal spoon . Just slide it up under the lid and pry it all the way around or until you hear the seal pop. Then it it will come right off!

Not that much. If I have a hard time opening one, I will take a dry cloth and tighten it up with it. Sometimes, I will hit the bottle on the end of it and then open it up. This is supposed to loosen the tightness of the cap up. Most of my bottles that I drink out of has easy to open caps. I really don't buy the hard to open bottles.