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Ever had one of those moments when you come up with an idea for a great invention, never act on it, and then see it later in a store or infomercial somewhere? My ex has those moments all the time. His latest bright idea that someone else has now monetized is, the beer pager.
Okay, maybe not a bright idea in every sense of the word, but certainly a novel one. I mean, who hasn't misplaced a beer on occasion and wished they'd had a pager attached to the darn thing so they could find it before it got warm or the baby got a hold of it?
And believe me, it does happen. My ex used to get to drinking on the weekends and had such a bad case of ADD that he would leave his beer all over the place while attending to pressing matters like working on the year long backyard deck project, cleaning half his golf clubs and cutting the 20' X 20' section of grass left over from last weeks attempt at brining our yard back under control. The ex would have just loved that run-on sentence!
Anyway, a few months ago he figured he would order one of those gadgets you hook to your key chain so if you lost them you could just send out a signal and they would start beeping from beneath wherever you may have left them. He hooked the device to a beer cozy and had himself a homemade beer pager, brilliant!
Of course he kept losing the device that actually sent out the signal to the cozy so he quickly abandoned the idea; he just couldn't bare the thought of having to keep track of two separate items as it was taking all the fun out drinking.
Well, low and behold, he calls me up the other day and said someone had stolen his idea. I argued that perhaps he should keep tighter reins on his ideas and quit shooting off his mouth so much when he had been drinking if he didn't want these things to keep happening to him. Or better yet, maybe he could actually act on one of these brilliant flashes on genius and help me afford to keep his kids out of the public school system.
But alas, it was too late. For just $24.95 you can log onto http://www.prankplace.com and get your loved ones their very own beer cozy pager. They make great stocking stuffers and Valentine's Day is just right around the corner. You can now keep your beer cold and close at hand, even when you've long forgotten where you parked your car or what your address is.
I just had to have one myself, so I spent the $25.00 and I must admit, they are pretty neat but I can tell you right now, they are not designed to accomodate wine glasses. I gave mine to the ex and he loves the darn thing and brags about it to all his buddies; claims he had a hand in the invention process. He solved the problem of losing the control by connecting it to his key chain, which of course, now has its own locator device.
The beer pager does work, but range is limited to around fifty feet so if you leave your beer at the neighbors, your not likely to pick up a signal and you'll just have to add that lost beer to your long list of other alcohol abuses.
The ex says he is working on something even more amazing than the beer pager and that I'll be sorry for ever having doubted he would one day be rich and famous. I'm fairly certain the beer pager won't make it's inventor rich or famous, but I bet his wife has the kids in private school and her own maid. That my friend, is the true American dream and the kind of man I would not mind "fetching a beer out of the fridge" for.
For the mind of Myla, please go to http://www.mylamadson.com
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