I went to the Patent Office trying to register some of my inventions. I went
to the main desk to sign in and the lady at the desk had a form that had to
be filled out. She wrote down my personal info and then asked me what I had
invented.
I said, “A folding bottle.”
She said, “Okay. What do you call it?”
“A Fottle.”
“What else do you have?”
“A folding carton.”
“And what do you call that?”
“A Farton.”
She laughed and said, “Those are silly names for products and one of them
sounds a bit crude.”
I was so upset by her comment that I grabbed the form and left the office
without even telling her about my folding bucket.