![]() Every so often you get a brilliant idea. You wake up in the middle of the night and say, "GADZOOKS, THIS IS GENIUS!!" And maybe you grab a note pad by your bed and write down your $billion$ idea and then, when you wake up the next morning, you look at the note and try to figure out what you meant when you wrote, “put it online and phzilkygiiisz.” I know how you feel. My penmanship, which is somewhere between doctor and dachshund, gets even worse in the middle of the night. If I could have read the notes about all my great ideas the next morning, I’d be so rich right now that I’d have someone sitting by the bed all night, just waiting to take dictation. Until then, I’ll just have to content myself with the recognition that some of those billion-dollar ideas might not have panned out quite as well as hoped. For every idea that hits it big—Pet Rocks, Hula Hoops, carpal tunnel syndrome—another 500 turn out to be expensive flops. I know, because I invested in most of them. There is something much worse than a bad idea that flops, however. Far more expensive and irritating are all the bad ideas that succeed. We are plagued daily by timesavers and solutions that cause much more trouble than they’re worth. They might have seemed like good ideas at the time, but they come from a box labeled Pandora. My own Hall of Shame includes:
The list goes on and on, but all this whining is tiring me out. Time for me to go take a nap and dream about some great new ideas to improve our lives. If we’re really lucky, I’ll forget all about them before I wake up. Of course, the best idea of all is to subscribe to dadwrites.com and learn all the things we'll be mumbling about on the subway in the coming week. Just click here, or maybe here, or even here, and all your problems are solved.
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STEVEN
1/20/2019 04:16:38 pm
I am counting on my company being successful, you didn't invest in it. ;-)
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Michael Rosenbaum
1/20/2019 06:12:55 pm
So that means I have guaranteed your success. You are so very welcome.
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David Brimm
1/21/2019 05:39:42 pm
Michael: You are well on your way to winning the grumpy old man sweepstakes. Congrats.
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Michael Rosenbaum
1/21/2019 07:12:28 pm
Actually, I no longer qualify after winning the lifetime achievement award in '07.
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Barb
1/28/2019 08:35:55 am
I don’t mind the automatic faucets. It’s the automatic soap dispensers that annoy me. Some are positioned in such a way that after you successfully get a shot of soap in your hands and then have to wiggle around attempting to rinse off, instead you get blasted with more soap down your arm.
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