Christmas Fruits

There are some really great inventions out there. And there are some really weird ones too. I’ve always been a fan of the wheel; it’s what my car sits on. Then I really like the microwave and microwavable dinners. But as I watched ‘Maid of Honor’ with Patrick Dempsey and his ‘Coffee collar” I realized that there is a lot of potential for a lot of dumb inventions to make it big. Take for example the guy who motorized his easy chair and then sold it for a lot of money on eBay. I just didn’t get that.

So what triggered my comparison of useful and useless inventions? That would be my visit to a local Christmas fruit baskets exhibition. There were just about the dumbest things people had put in their baskets. Some had really good ideas too but the bad ones made me cry with laughter. There was this one guy who had put a Christmas gnome in his gift basket. The gnome was heavy and went through the frail basket. Then there was this other guy who had filled his basket with beer caps. I think they missed the fact that Christmas gift baskets are supposed to be Christmas gifts, not a collage of useless thing lying in your home. The men had more bad ideas as compared to the women.

The stuff women had put in their baskets was jars of homemade jams, cookies etc. they looked nice but some of the cookies were crumbling before the many eyes of the visitors. The Christmas fruit baskets were really popular, and in my opinion they would have made great Christmas holiday gifts. The men would just have to keep trying. They had a competition for ‘Best Christmas Gift Baskets” and the winning basket was raffled off. I was disappointed that I didn’t win it.

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