“When I invented the refrigerator, I did so with one goal in mind: to devise a way to display wedding invites.”
When I invented the refrigerator, I did so with one goal in mind: to devise a way to display wedding invites. As a young man, I had reached that age when my peers began popping the question to their sweethearts—it was the early nineteen-hundreds, and there wasn’t much else to do. “Save the dates” and “you’re joyfully invited to”s began to pile up on my countertops, climbing perilously skyward, a creamy card-stock Tower of Babel that inevitably toppled, burying me beneath a card avalanche.
And then, in a vision one night, it came to me. I must have fallen asleep at my desk when a figure appeared before me, bathed in a bright light. At first, I thought it was an angel, but as it approached the light disappeared, revealing a quadrilateral shape the size of a man, covered in wedding invitations. When I awoke, the figure was gone but the divine image was seared into my brain. Suddenly, everything clicked: rectangle in the kitchen.
Simple. I noticed a problem one day while I was testing the refrigerator prototype. As I hung up my eleventh wedding invitation of the season, a funny thing happened. My mind started tallying up all the thousands of dollars I’d be spending on travel, bachelor parties, registry gifts, tuxedo rentals. The days that I’d have to take off work. The nagging worry that I, Henry P.
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