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I love the free market system…I really do. I also love capitalism and a marketplace that would allow “inventor’ Ron Popeil the freedom to audaciously manufacture AND market innovations such as the Pocket Fisherman and the storied Veg-O-Matic which, if you remember sliced, diced and even Julienned anything you shoved in it.
Or on it.
Well, this same marketplace has given entré to some product design genius who has FINALLY solved the nightmare every parent of a baby boy faces: a face full of urine. I’m talking about the uncontrolled geyser-like stream of tee-tee that escapes when a baby boy’s diaper is removed.
For anyone who has ever changed the diaper of an infant boy or baby know, they are aware that at anytime the baby is un-diapered, and air hits the usually covered parts of baby, the result can be the release of pee, urine, wiz; an ammonia chaser…call it whatever you want, it ends up on one’s face and yes, it can be annoying.
And apparently annoying enough for the advent of somethnig called , “The Wee Block”, which is a cup like shield placed strategcially to protect parents from baby’s home-made fountain. The Wee B
lock is made of cotton and is machine washable. Its dome shape is intended to catch the escaping pee.
With the force of some of baby boys’ surprises, it’s hard to not imagine, the liquid bouncing back onto baby. To me, it looks like strange combination of a renegade shoulder pad and the cup you stick in tje front of a jock..
The Wee Block is selling for $12.95. The One Step Ahead people who sell the Wee Block think parents should buy two. Therefore, for a mere $26 you too can protect yourself from your baby’s urine stream.
Ridiculous.
Even so, people have bought it since it was first introduced in 2007.
There’s also a device, I hear, that detects urine in a baby’s diaper.
I also thought the nose and the visual aide that is a soggy, wet diaper were fairly decent indicators, but far be it from me to interfere with someone’s ability to make a buck
Still, I think this need to invent a better mouse trap (and if you give Ron Popeil a drawing board, financing and a deadline, he’ll give you one–and I’ll bet it’ll fit in your pocket) is ridiculous. We’ve become lazy. We’re not thinking. The answers to some of the most complicated questions are right before our eyes. They’re so simple.
Let us get back to the old adage, “Necessity is the mother of invention” and stay there a while, OK? And in that time, let’s invent a cure for cancer; let’s invent alternative fuel sources that are affordable and practical. Let’s find a way to quickly ripen avocados and then, let’s come up with a pill that adds a special enzyme to hair that makes it impervious to a bad cut.
A “Wee Block” for $12.99??? A urine detector in a diaper for God knows how much??
Please. Let’s just cut to the freakin’ chase here people!!!! The cheap and easy solution can always…ALWAYS be found right before your eyes and half the time, in your very own pantry. It just takes creativity, scissors and a still, motionless child.
Yeah, well.
It gives new meaning to term DIXie cup, dontcha think???
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