When I mentioned to a fellow journalist that I was going to write a piece about tear tapes, he reacted with incredulity. "Tear tapes are small pieces of plastic," he said. "There's no story in that!" His reaction left me feeling uneasy because I have to admit that his opinion accorded with mine at the time. And my sense of foreboding was not eased when an interview with Mr Stephen Pinchen, the business development director of P P Payne, almost opened with the words, "Nobody really talks about tear tape and easy opening any more". I felt like a Formula I driver on being told that there was no fuel in his car. But all was not lost. Indeed, I discovered that I was entering the story of tear tapes at an interesting point. One phase, the establishment phase, has ended, and, hence, nobody is talking about it. But another, the development phase, is getting into full swing, and here the talk is almost deafening.
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机译：当我向一位新闻记者提到我要写有关撕胶带的文章时，他的反应令人怀疑。他说：“撕带是塑料的小块。” “那没有故事！”他的反应使我感到不安，因为我不得不承认他的观点当时符合我的观点。当我对P P Payne业务开发总监Stephen Pinchen先生的采访几乎开始时说：“没有人真正谈论撕裂胶带，再也容易打开”，这让我感到不安。我被告知是一级方程式赛车手，因为他的车里没有燃料。但是，一切并没有丢失。的确，我发现我在一个有趣的地方进入了录音带的故事。建立阶段的一个阶段已经结束，因此没有人在谈论它。但是另一个阶段，即发展阶段，正在如火如荼地进行着，谈论几乎是震耳欲聋。
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