I really thought you were going to show me as I spent 22 minutes trying to find the ends on 2 different roles. Too funny and I did the same thing you did.
Life doesn't always work that way. I use a tape dispensing gun at work, and sometimes the roll spins backward and the loose end sticks back to the roll. It'd be great if it'd fold itself over or at least leave a bubble so I could easily find the edge of the tape, but it never does. So instead of wasting five minutes trying to find the end (only for it to happen again) I grab a new roll and tell my manager to buy high quality tape next time.
I can't get over it. I am laughing since morning. I spent 15 minutes to find the edge but failed. Then decided to search the solution on RU-vid. after watching this I threw the tape and my bad mood and frustration are gone. So So funny. love his guts to post the video. Lol
Seriously, if the tape sticks back down on itself, I take scissors & make a very light, shallow cut across the roll. This starts a new “end” that’s easy to see & peel up. Then I pull gently until I get down to the portion of the roll that wasn’t cut through. It wastes some tape, but saves a lot of time & frustration! Good luck!
I can't tell you how much money I have lost having to throw away those stuck rolls. You had more patience than I've had before giving up and saying FU!
If you're still having this problem, try cutting a new edge with a blade straight across the roll. I just tried that and it worked, but I did cut into more than one layer (pressed too hard) so it's thicker. But I guess that isn't horrible. At least it's usable now! 🙃
I just did it the same way! I think I should just quit being a cheap a$$ and throw it away, but it's a brand new roll and it's pissing me off! Thanks for the laugh at least! :)
I'm dying laughing! Im sitting here trying to do the same thing and when you did that at the end I fell out laughing bc that is where I am at with this damn tape! HA! Time to buy another roll!
I had the same problem and I was hoping you could be of any help, I then used a knife and scratched and scratched till I got a small piece out, I wasted a few layers but I didn't have to throw the whole thing out. funny video though :-)
Omg !!! I even said wtf n called u a name bc I been trying that for an hour !!! You cracked me up !!! Thanks. I must be mellow today or I woulda threw my phone at the end of your video !!! Lmmfao
I'm glad it's not only me who gives up trying to find the XXXXXXX end of the tape. I eventually managed it by swearing very loudly and handing it to my wife who has a lot more patience than me. Isn't marriage wonderful?
That was funny. But keep working the tape with your nail patiently until you get a corner going. Instead of pulling that corner straight down bring it over to the opposite side slowly (otherwise you will cause it to break uneven and start all over again) until you see you can continue and get the full width of the tape going. If you use a box cutter to try to start it, it will be frustrating as the tape will only keep breaking at the point of the cut. Be patient, you can do it.
I'm doing the same thing right now! Uhhhggg! I always try to make a tab by folding the end under each time I use it, but sometimes I forget. I wonder if I can cut a new edge w/ a blade? I'm gonna try... it worked! But I think I cut into more than 1 layer cause it feels thicker, oh well at least now I can use it.
Yep!!!!! you'e think they can send men to the moon but they can't invent a way to get tape to not tear funny or unstick itself. Going thru this right now, that's why i"m here....have broken off my nails ends that took me months to grow.. Expressed well at the end !
OK, a simple video about a simple subject punked me. Still, I feel better that I'm not the only dysfunctional tape unspooler on the planet. My method: Go to a gun show. Find a K-Bar Marine fighting knife. You can tell by the distinctive look of it, and USMC engraved on the blade. DO NOT look on the other side where, in tiny print, it says, "Manufactured in China." Oriental references are useless information, and ignoring them will save you fifty bucks on the purchase. Sharpen the hell out of it. Firmly press the blade to the roll, making a perpendicular slice in the outermost tape layer. Pick at the edge with your fingernail until you can grasp the tape with your finger. Pull the tape for one rotation of the spool. The K-Bar will always cut several layers of tape beneath the slice, and a tapelet, approx. 4", will separate from the spindle on every rotation, leaving you where you started. Holler, using every curse word you remember and make a few new ones up if you can. For instance, "smegma" is an innocuous word, but it sounds disgusting, so use it. After a while, if you're old enough, your wrapping may look like garbage, but you'll feel as though you're back in the Corps. HOORAH.
@@mrequi1 A good friend of mine said she liked Dirt Farmer John's (Jeez, what a handle) tape unraveling method better. DFJ's way seems workable. Of course, he used blue semi-sticky construction tape used for temporary work. That tape is thicker than packing tape and offers less resistance to opening. It does patch bullet holes OK (if the holes are on paper). Revenge is the only conceivable pleasure associated with packing tape. Don't succumb to frustration; boil the tape in Formaldehyde. OK, the technique won't work. On the bright side, it's a genuine pleasure to watch the little bastard burn as you send the sinister malignancy to its rightful place in hell. At this point, optimists, would say "Every cloud has a silver lining," even while they inhale a boiling carcinogen. Realists put no stock in such happy horsesh*t because they realize that clouds don't hobnob with silver linings. The silver lining platitude is a fabrication easy to explain. The cliché writers chose "Silver" because it has two syllables and is easy to pronounce. It's also easy to remember. Truthful writers would say, "Every cloud has a deuterium-tritium and lithium hydride pellet lining. [Here, visualize a picture of an H-Bomb test that RU-vid won't let me reproduce in the comments section.] An accurate description of the lining of a macho-manly cloud doesn't trip off the tongue. I'd give truth two weeks to fall from the lexicon.
I couldn’t resist watching & waiting for the punch line once he tried & tried & turned it both ways and still couldn’t find it. Sometimes we need a good laugh, right?
Ha! And I hear that that is the kind of tape (clear) that the post office is requiring for shipping packages. Wouldn't you know that they would pick the biggest time waster of all. It's almost impossible to find the end of the tape. And then when you do find it, it is almost impossible to pull the whole end up together so that it doesn't spit into about ten different rows. And then it's almost impossible to get all of the split rows joined together into one piece. And those cheap-ass dispensers do nothing to hold onto the end of the tape so that you don't lose it again the very next time you use it. Even the $10 dispensers aren't that great. It's wasting millions and millions of man-hours all over the country. But what does the post office care? They don't have to pay for all of that waste; everybody else does.
Damn, I enjoyed your dilemma! I literally have thrown my share off my deck onto the common ground behind my house. II keep thinking there must be an easier way to handle it. It pissed me off to be frustrated and then further made me angry to lose the money and the aggravation which took me to that point. If anyone can find simple short solution please tell me. Thank you
LOL, I'm going through the same thing right now trying to tape boxes, this video helped me laugh but that's it using box tape without a tape gun sucks, I guess us poor people not using a tape gun cuz we cannot afford to buy one we could only afford to buy the tape itself cuz we're poor have frustrations this is why poor people are more frustrated things like this!!!!!! the love of money is sin but lack of money causes frustration and sadness and despair! I can't even afford to buy a tape gun so I bought the roll of tape and now I can't find the end of the tape and it's frustrating the fuck out of me and I'm pissed off
Belated by a late bloomer; Sept 2018. Watch him tracing the rool of tape as I have done many times...the he tossed it with his comment %#@&*( don't know allowed me to crack up. It was funny the outcome, when Ithought there'd be a solutin.
