I can’t say I imagine any random envelope would like to be opened by me. It’s not that I’m violent, I’m gentle, but when the deed is done, the envelope usually is torn beyond repair. Envelope ER personnel would have little else to do but declare the time of death. I first pick one end of the glue adhesive lip and pull back to initiate the tear. and then instead of poking my finger in the hole and ripping down the length of the short side of the rectangle, I simply keep pulling at the tab, as it unwinds itself like an uncoiling snake around the enclosed letter. It’s easy to imagine I must have done it this way as a young boy, helping the mom or papa with the mail. And I quite like that I’ve never outgrown this manner of letter opening. It’s one way, among others (I hope), that I’m keeping my childhood alive through mannerisms. Note that the technique described is not one I employ for all envelopes. There are some which are given special care. For instance, those which come from a certain silk girl whose initials are the abbreviation of the topology term ‘kernel’.