By Jim Hagarty
2015
Being a genius is not all fun and games and accolades. My mind is constantly working, looking for solutions to the world’s ills.
This week I was sitting in a drivethrough lineup while a family of 12 ordered their meals for the week, when inspiration struck. It strikes me a lot. I have many scars to prove it.
Environmentalists are very concerned about drivethrough restaurants. At any given time on any given day, hundreds of thousands of cars, vans and trucks are sitting in lineups, their engines idling, mufflers spewing crap into the atmosphere. There have been campaigns here and there to ban drivethroughs but the idea of armed insurrections by the villagers if ever a thing was done does not appeal to municipal officials.
Here is what needs to happen. I offer this at no charge to the world. Some clever people will figure out to “monetize” my brainwave. Install moving driveways at every drivethrough, fancy conveyer belts that would stream all the vehicles in and out of the establishments. Once on the platform, engines could be shut off until the vehicles exit at the other end.
The Inventors’ Hall of Fame, here I come.
