Here’s a mystery, and I want to solve it. I found this on one of the countertops in the kitchen. I like to think of it as something akin to those “remove before flight” ribbons on planes.
Remove it completely before using. Hmmm. Do you know what it is? The only other clue I can offer is to say this is only one half of it. It’s a small symmetrical thing, in toto, the bottom half is the same as this, and just separated by that short little stem. And it doesn’t have any sort of adhesive backing, so I don’t think it was on anything liquid, like a shampoo or a skin cream.
Whatever it came from, French speakers are using it as well.
So it’s a mystery, but I don’t want it solved for me. That would simply involve a question and its answer. Where’s the thrill in that?
Of course, there’s a risk here. If I can’t solve it, I must keep looking. And if I keep looking, pretty quickly the window for the easy answer would close.
“Do you remember that time, in 2021, when you bought something and this was on it? What was that?”
The next 36 hours or so, then, will be critical.
