"scratch the foil to view your code"

this design is not very friendly to guitar players. or any stringed instrument player, for that matter. we need to have our nails cut short to press the strings into the frets. men also like having short nails for some reason. how the hell does one scratch this without nails?

luckily, i had a guitar in my backpack which i used to scratch the stubborn foil. what if i didn't have the pick, though? i don't think anything else in my bag would've worked. i'm not a fan of straight edges or sharp stuff. i'm in the library, nothing conveniently near me would've worked either.

i suppose i could have asked someone, such as a girl, near me. however, that's under the assumption 1) they are comfortable talking with me and 2) they have nails. what if out of everyone in this library, no one satisfied those conditions? the chances of that are low. but what if i was in a guitar school? or an amputee rehabilitation center? i guess one could tell me to wait till i get home to access my geology textbook. if i were in either of those places, shouldn't i be 1) learning/teaching guitar or 2) administering physical therapy to a car wreck survivor?

why did they choose a scratch-able foil over a some sort of peel? is this strange foil cheaper than adhesive? i feel like adhesive would be less expensive than this mystery foil. adhesive would also be quicker to peel off than scratching off the foil. if this code paper were laying on some shelf in the brown bookstore (which it was) and i didn't want to pay for it, it would take me a longer time to scratch the code than peel the code and dip.

alternatively, i could take the paper and leave. but what if the paper had a security bomb on it that exploded if it went past the front door? maybe there was a secret bomb on the paper i wasn't aware of, and when i payed for the paper at the register, the young cashier secretly typed in a code that deactivated the bomb while i was distracted with apple pay.

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