Iron Zen

I volunteered to iron my work shirts the other night since my wife was doing the cooking. Ironing is a strange thing don't you think ? I mean who decided that suddenly after centuries of living in crumpled clothes we needed to iron them ?!
In the prehistoric era no one cared if your mammoth fur coat was slightly crumpled when you went out hunting !
So who is the idiot who invented such a need ? Looks like we can blame the chinese for that one, since they invented Iron casting. Then in 1882 a NY inventor by the name of Henry W. Seeley came up with the first electric iron. His iron weighed almost 15 pounds and took a long time to warm up. Now it weighs much less but it still takes people a long time to warm up to the idea of spending the evening ironing.

Now let's come back to this first guy, his idea was really stupid but he sure is a genius at marketing. I mean how do you go about selling a product that everybody hates, takes a lot of your time and is not user friendly ? Ever since then we keep on ironing and whining while doing it.

Technically speaking since 1882 it hasn't improved a great deal, irons look more like streamlined speedboats nowadays although I don't know that it makes the task of ironing go any faster ! It's time to come up with something new...I present the " i iron ". Works easy, take one crumpled shirt put it inside your i iron and 2 minutes later it comes out automatically ironed. I think we'd sell a lot more of those than ipods !

I must admit that after a while, I got used to the gentle glide of the iron on the fabric of my shirts and I felt at peace within. Maybe I could try to market a new relaxing technique focusing on the whole ironing spiritual experience.

For the dedicated iron lovers out there I found this link that shows you how to toast your cheese sandwich with an iron.

http://www.southphillyblocks.org/photos_essays/grilled_cheese/