Remember when you would get a straw and pound it on the table and the paper would fly off...

...or you would blow it off. Apparently that is one of the small pleasures of life from days gone by. Now when you get a straw the company is so intent on saving a molecule of paper that you have to spend 5 minutes peeling the paper, piece by piece, off the entire length of the straw.

Does it really take that much more paper to loosen up just a little?