Tuesday, August 31, 2010

There's one born every minute

Today is my son in law's birthday and I always struggle with what to get him.  This year, however, I was inspired almost a month in advance, when I went through the exhibits at the Regina Ex.  I found an 'all in one' type tool that, according to the advertising at the booth, would take the place of an ENTIRE toolkit.  It has a screwdriver component, with all the various screwdriver ends, a pliers, a wrench, a tape measure, a hammer, a level, a cherry pitter, nose hair trimmer and earwax excavator all beautifully illuminated with a clever LED display light. The sales guy thought SIL needed one.  As I examined the ads at the booth a little more, I found that this was T H E  T O O L that was on Dragon's Den.  I know most of my family and friends are saying "uh...what?" because we just don't do CBC as a rule, but this is a show where people make a presentation to a panel of rich people who want to invest in clever ideas/inventions.  On a really bad TV night I did manage to catch a rerun of this particular episode.  The inventor was so well received, and highly praised by the panel that they actually invested MORE money in his invention that he was asking for.  Could I just leave it at that?  No...I had to throw some of my money at him as well.  Anyway, how bad can it be with all those screwdriver ends?  Gotta be good for something, right?

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