I don’t remember where I heard about this, but I remember hearing about someone who came up with the concept of 3 legged underwear. The brilliance of the underwear is that you could wear it for 4 days by using the first two legs, then the second two legs, then flip the underwear inside out and repeat.

I wanted to know if this really existed or if it was something that we came up with in conversation, so that, if possible, I could quickly steal this brilliant idea and make millions of dollars. After poking around a little while, I came across a reference to it here, which pointed me to the Wall Street Journal. (You can find the article here, but you have to have an account to read the entire thing, which I don’t)

So, okay, no dice on that one, I guess someone has that out there already. Actually, he was smarter than me anyway, because he put the legs in a circle, rather than the straight line I was imagining, which allowed him to get a total of 6 days out of them. Kind of reminds me of that old SNL commercial for 3 legged jeans. I tried for hours to find a link to a video of that, but it proved too elusive.

Anyway, I might not be able to make my millions off of that, but we did have many hours of entertainment speculating on things like: what is the upper limit on the number of  legs you can add? Adding one leg (for a total of 4) gets you 8 days, adding two gets you 10, etc. but eventually you would have too much fabric in your pants. This sort of mathematical musing eventually led into story problems, such as, how many pairs of underwear and how many legs on that underwear would you need to make a trip of X number of days, or, if a man leaves on a train from New York at 6 p.m. with a 4 legged pair of underwear, what city will he need to do laundry in?

But back to the problem at hand, how am I going to become rich? Sara had a brilliant idea; travel sized Nicorette. The packs could be maybe 1 or 2 pieces, as opposed to the regular 100 pack, specifically to be sold by flight attendants on airplanes. They wouldn’t be able to print our money fast enough. Not to be outdone, I added several  more lines of business, such as movie theater concession stands. Those of you who haven’t spent time around heavy smokers don’t realize how hard it is for them to sit through movies. I have heard people say that they just don’t go to movies anymore because of this.

So look for “travel Nicorette”™©®, coming soon to a theater near you!