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(More customer reviews)WHEN MY OLD PROCTOR-SILEX ELECTRIC CAN OPENER BROKE, I WAS ELATED. The reason for this was, that the PS electric can opener always seemed to require "coaxing" to open cans...placing cans in just the right position to have the can opener open them was not an easy thing to do. Plus, once the can-opner had "deigned" to open the can, it delicately(?) "spat" out a bit of any liquid which was in the can. (I know I'm anthropomorphizing here -- giving life to innanimate objects -- but this BS -- excuxe me -- PS -- can opener really DID seem to take on a life of it's own. Not an evil life, exactly -- but a somewhat spiteful one. I don't know why. I never abused this can opener -- I thought it, (and still think it), very well designed....to look at, anyway. Maybe, like the pretty, (and really talented), actress, it just had a "Lindsay Lohan Complex". At any rate, I was really glad that this tempermental electric can opener had broken, (beyond repair), and so I could, in good consience, buy a new one....
Being of a Libertarian mind-set, I wanted my new can opener to be a MANUAL can-opener. Osmaa bin Laden may be dead -- but his henchmen, and his philosophy are still very much alive, and you never know when they, (and or other enemies of freedom and the U.S. Constitution), may turn off all electricity and other creature comforts most Americans now take for granted. I mean -- even if nothing happens, it's better to be prepared, just in case it does. (What other philosophy can yoo expect from a native New Yorker who was living in NYC on 11th September, 2001?)
So -- a manual can-opener was what I wanted. After looking carefully on Amazon, I saw this TUPPERWARE E SERIES CAN OPENER. It was priced at around $30. It had two five-star reviews from other customers. I also noticed ANOTHER Tupperware can-opener for sale. Curiously, it was ALSO listed as a Tupperware E Series Can Opener, had 7 five-star reviews, and cost just over $40. I was confused here, and still am. These can-openers were NOT labelled "Series E - No. 1", or "Series E - No. 2", or similarly. Nope -- EACH of these can openers just was labelled "Series E". As both can-openers came from the same company, and seemingly had the same name, (and both had only five-star reviews), I did what most people would do -- I opted for the less expensive model. (Too late -- which is right now -- I notice that the more expensive Series-E can-opener has a HYPEN between the designations "Series" and "E", whilst the less expensive model, the one I got, does NOT have this hypen between the two designations. A simple typo? I'm still not sure....
Anyway, I had VERY high hopes for this Tupperware Series E manual can-opener. Two five-star reviews, and the good feeling of saving some money, are nothing to be
ignored. I had spent about a week without ANY can-opener, and so looked forward to the arrival of this new one.
Well, Amazon Prime, at least, acted as expected. It took only two days for my Tupperware Series E manual can opener to arrive. (Two l.o..n...g days, as I was still without ANY can-opener.)
When it arrived, I eagerly opened the package. And, following directions, opened the can opener's "legs", placed it, as the directions indicated, on the can, closed the legs, and ....turned the handle.....
It was hard work turning the handle -- but I put that down to the slight case of Myasthenia Gravis, (a muscle weakening ailment), which I have had for a long time.
Yet, as my case of this ailment IS very slight, I DID have the muscle energy to turn the handle. Slowly.....
The handle turned.....BUT THE CAN DID NOT OPEN! I have never experienced anything like THIS before....and hope never to again. Now I was not only upset...but very, very confused. THIS can-opener had garnered FIVE stars from two other Amazon shoppers? Were these other people in the 'Twilight Zone' -- or was I?
Two days later, the lady who helps me do the more arduous tasks around my apartment came in. SHE has NO neurological impairment of ANY kind. SHE tried to open a similar can with this can opener. SHE HAD THE SAME RESULTS AS I HAD HAD!
Totally confused -- but still in need of SOME type of can-opener, I searched again on Amazon. Even more carefully this time. I finally found the AMCO 407 SWING-AWAY CAN OPENER. It is a manual can-opener. It has some 5 star reviews. It is also listed as being used by NASA on space flights. It was this last attribute -- and perhaps ONLY this last attribute -- that led me to take a chance on the AMCO 407 SWINGAWAY Can Opener.
If THIS new, yet-to-arrive AMCO 407 SWINGAWAY CAN OPENER doesn't work, I may seriously consider going into outer-space myself. Either that -- or getting manual can-opener at a brick-and-mortar store -- on the one day a week this lady can take me.
I am tired of getting "taken" by non-working can-openers!
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U P D A T E : It is now 12th May. My Amco Swing-Away 407 Can Opener Has arrived!
I used it....and ....IT WORKS WONDERFULLY! : ) I actually now have a can opener that works --and works without electricity! It works so easily, too! And I notice it has a FULL-CIRCLE CUTTING EDGE, unlike the B.S. -- that is, er, the P.S.
(Proctor-Silex) old electric model I describe at the beginning of the review. Not having a can opener for two weeks is the equivalent to being without electictity for two days, I think -- quite an awful experience, but now, I actually HAVE a can opener -- (NOT the one reviewed above, of course) -- that WORKS! I notice that my new can opener, (the Amco Swing-Away 407), is no longer listed as being used by NASA, (don't know why -- it was this use designation that sold ME on the Amco Swingaway 407...and I'm SO glad I bought it!), but I feel so happy now, I could dance all the way to Jupiter....and maybe beyond it! Thanks, Amco! Thanks, Swing-A-Way! Thanks, Amazon! (Thanks, NASA????)
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