Incredibly Simple Things That Made Me Feel Like a Complete Buffoon

Ken Taro
4 min readOct 11, 2023

Have these common contraptions fooled you as well?

A particularly unflattering picture of the author with a caption that says “ken.exe has stopped working.”
A particularly unflattering picture of me sitting on a bench in San Francisco.

I actually don’t particularly consider myself an intelligent person, but some of the items on this list are definitely things I should have no problem with. Alas, they have caused, and continue to cause, plenty of confusion and angst.

Packaging Tape

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Ken Taro

Writer, satirist, and humorist. You can find my best work on my mom’s refrigerator.