This thread is pretty humorous. Luckily I have a cool wife with limited dumbassery, but she's recently gone off the deep end coming up with new business ideas. They're usually along the lines of "feed tuna fish mayonnaise" and have zero chance of ever happening, but she marches along regardless. I've also noticed an uptick in business magazine subscriptions like "Inc." and "Fortune", which of course are never opened and go straight into recycling.
Yesterday a new one popped up:
Wife: I have a great idea.
Me: Oh yeah, what is it this time?
Wife: What the hell does that mean, "this time?"
Me: (Backtracking quickly) I mean it was just last week you had that awesome idea about the pot holder with hand moisturizer inside. Remember?
Wife: Oh yeah, remind me to follow up on that. Anyway I saw a video of a bunch of kids dancing at Coachella. They all had plastic cups with God knows what inside, but here's the thing! (She's fully animated now, hands outstretched, eyes wide open, waiting for me to engage.)
Me: (putting down the remote, sighing internally). What thing?
Wife: The drinks inside were all splashing out of the cups! So I'm thinking, what a waste! Shouldn't there be some kind of cap on those plastic cups to keep the drinks from spilling? I mean how many music festivals are there out there and how many kids are spilling drinks out of plastic cups???
Me: Millions?
Wife: (pointing at me like a crazy person) That's right, millions! So here's my idea. I come up with a cover for those cups. I'm thinking it would be like a square piece of Saran Wrap but the edges have some kind of glue on them. So you could pull it out of a small pouch and wrap it over the cup. Voila, no more spilling.
Me: But if you put a cover over a cup how do you drink from it?
Wife: (pointing at me again, still crazed). A ha! I already thought of that. We cut a little slice in the middle, so they can still drink from it but not spill.
Me: So how would it stick to the cup again?
Wife: Not sure yet but that will be the first thing I research.
Me: You know, I think there are international conglomerates that specialize in plastic cups and caps for those cups. I'd bet if there was a need for a product as you describe they would have come up with something like that already.
*insert awkward pause, ten seconds of silence while my wife's face turns red*
Wife: WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE SUPPORTIVE!
Me: (Backtracking quickly). Remember my friend Bill? I think his brother is a patent attorney (a complete lie). Maybe I should reach out to him and see if he has any recommendations on how *we* should move forward with this.
Wife: (visibly relaxing). Really? That would be awesome, thanks honey!
Me: (pats self on back, reengages with the remote)