Quintessential: Scissors

So, sometimes I am astounded by really good thinking in a lot of day to day things. Scissors for example. What a cool and elegant tool. Using the magic of leverage and a bunch of other physical properties the names of which I can't think of 2 pieces of sort of sharpened metal, more or less joined at the middle can cut through cloth, paper, metal, tree branches and yes, meat.

I use them in the kitchen all the time. You wanna half an apple turn over? Snip. There you go. Zoe needs her steak chopped up. Snip, snip, snip. Open the milk carton. Yep. What else can do this without a potential loss of blood. Cuts though squid like butter. Cuts through butter like squid.

God bless who ever invented these things!