Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Necessity is the mother of invention

(yesterday, while riding in the car to his baseball game. Editor's note: The Boy does some of his best thinking in the car) "You know how I have to step out into the street to check the mail? Well, that's really dangerous. Someone could run over me with a car."

I nodded silently in agreement and said, "That's true. That's why you have to watch for cars and wait until the street is clear to step out and check the mail."

He pondered that for a moment and responded, "Well, yeah . . . OR . . . they could make mailboxes with 2 doors: one on the front like they have now, and one on the back. If there was a door on the BACK, I could stay in the yard and check the mail and not get killed."

Yep.

I'm setting up a sit-down meeting with these guys. I'll be there, of course, but I think I'll let The Boy do all the negotiating and deal with the patent office.

3 comments:

Rod said...

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jimbizzle said...

Sorry to break the news... But someone beat your little man to the punch.

http://www.steelmailbox.com/assets/images/auto_generated_images/a_DualDoorMailBox02.jpg

Rita said...

Holy crap! I have to show him that!

He'll be pissed off that they stole his idea. He'll probably still demand royalties.