Tear here...HA

Oh Ketchup, mayonnaise and yes even fruit snacks how you have lied to me. Tear here for easy convenience...I have fallen for your tricks one too many times.  The ultimate liar, and I think it should be noted, is honey. Honey goes best with scones. Duh! When do you realize you need honey with your scone? After you have grabbed your scone and your hands are greasy from all the scone goodness.  You grab the little packet of honey (for those of us too cheap to buy a honey bear, or for those sitting in a restaurant to cheap to buy honey bears) expecting all your taste bud dreams to come true in 5.8 seconds.  It is then that you realize tear here is not as easy as tearing there. There is that little dotted line, so inviting and self explanatory, but what stands between you and that dotted line, is sixty seconds of struggle. All you wanted was a scone with a lil' bit o' honey. First you try tearing, and then you try biting spitting little bits of plastic wrapper everywhere but get no where...then you get desperate. Asking those around you, who have not fallen prey to the greasy hands. First you turn to family, who have probably dealt with this before, and want to squash the scene before it happens. Then you turn to your friends who are more likely to laugh at your conundrum than simply tear here. After you have exhausted all possible acquaintances you turn to the waiter. Waiters don't seem to understand that all you want them to do is tear on the dotted line. They just look at you quizzically and refill your glass. That's when you see it...your last glimpse of hope...of humanity...a knife.  You rush the table you grab the knife, you grab the honey packet, you position them perfectly, and you prepare to cut. Then you realize the only thing standing between you and the dotted line, you and honey, you and a delicious scone, you and dessert, or breakfast, or dinner, or a scrumptious snack, you and what you want most, is, it's a, your last hope is a butter knife. Really?  A butter knife? What's even worse is when it's a plastic butter knife. The injustice! The horror! But yes it has happened.  If you are lucky you remember in time that on your two inch fold up into your pocket, pocket knife there are some fold up into your pocket scissors.  You are finally able to defeat the tear here dotted line. You eat your scone, your fries, your hamburger like the champion you are.

The dotted line, also known as the enemy

Tearing there gets me this.  Not as detrimental when it is a bag of fruit snacks, the snacks remain at the bottom of the package.  Ketchup gets all over.  Mayonnaise does not get all over. Honey is sticky and gets all over.

Empty bag of fruit snacks after defeating the dotted line