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Do your friends say you’re stupid because you’re so weak you can’t even open a tight bottle of soda, water, or champaign? I promise you, you’re not too weak.
To open the bottle you must increase grip. Use a rubber jar opener (a non-slip pad). That’s it. Don’t try to be discrete—hiding what you’re doing by subtly using your sleeve or shirt tail looks stupid. And there’s no need for hard-to-use methods like rubber bands or dry towels. Let everyone see you confidently pick up a grip pad. Twist the bottle cap quickly and decisively by following these steps: Jump To The Solution.
Do your friends advise you to break the seal by running the bottle’s cap under hot water? The warm water trick no longer works. Water heaters are now required not to heat water too hot, lest it burn your hands. And breaking the seal will happen when you increase torque. You create torque by following these steps: Jump To The Solution
Do your companions insist that gently hitting or tapping the cap against a hard surface will break the seal? So you hit the cap gently against the kitchen table. The seal doesn’t break. You hit it a little harder. The bottle still won’t open. You hit it harder. The bottle opens but you’ve released the carbonation. A geyser of soda and CO2 shoots from the bottle, leaving you with a disgustingly flat, tasteless liquid.
Do not do anything that shakes up the liquid in the bottle.
Do those who are not present while you struggle to open the bottle tell you, “Sorry, I can’t come over and help you right now.” You ask another friend to come over, but they’re busy shopping. You ask another, who turns out to be away on vacation. You try and fail to call still another, who is asleep.
Suppose you get tired of searching for friends who can help you open bottles. Suppose, in general, you don’t like constantly depending on others. Here’s how to open a tight soda, water, or champagne bottle on your own without shaking it and without looking stupid:
- Use your strongest hand.
2. Wrap the pad around the bottle cap.
3. Engage your imagination and your past experience. Think of someone you are absolutely furious with.
5. Wait a moment, to allow your anger to build.
6. Slam that cap off that bottle.
See? You’re not a weakling. The trick was to use your strength effectively by increasing instantaneous torque. You twisted the bottle cap quickly and decisively.
“Think of someone you are absolutely furious with.” Instead of focusing on the result (an open bottle) you focused on a human counterpart who could affect you emotionally.
“Wait a moment, to allow your anger to build.” A sudden burst of emotional focus can raise your level of physiological arousal. Have you heard the story about the man whose wife was trapped under a car? He became so scared that he was able to lift the 2000-pound automobile off her instantly. The same sort of thing happened with you. A sudden burst of emotional arousal sometimes makes short, intense, even “impossible” physical feats possible.
“Slam that cap off that bottle.” I gave you the word Slam, a short, sharp internal command. This may have helped trigger that wrist-muscle contraction you needed to make in order to increase torque.
You’re not stupid. You combined a few mental techniques with the use of a grip pad, to increase torque and get that instant pop you wanted.
Dr. Jean M. Bradt
cassjmb10@att.net