Folding Bucket

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.” “What do you call it?”

“A Far­ton.”

She snig­gered and said, “Those are silly names for prod­ucts and one of them sounds kind of 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.