Chain-Saw-on-a-Stick.........Of Course

     I am getting a mental picture of how this product developed.  I imagine the marketing and design guys are sitting around thinking about new products and how they can be marketed when one forward thinking guy says.

     Hey, let's put a 4 pound chainsaw with shark like rotating teeth on the end of a 10 foot stick, isn't that a great idea.  Oh! Oh! then we'll target the advertising to women as the new garden tool that they can't do without.  The ad can show a women trimming the trees with ease but what the consumer won’t noticed is the women is a 30 year old that looks like she spends 4 hours a day in the gym.

     What a great marketing team, I could use them to market my blog.  If these guys can successfully sell a chain saw on a stick they could certainly get me more readers.  Maybe they could promote a book for me.  I could title it as Complication Compilation of Jim's Favorite Stories: damn I screwed that up.  Sorry, I got distracted easily.

      Mimi recently received a chain-saw-on-a-stick, which was a Christmas gift she requested.  I thought it was an unusual choice but who am I to question her desires.  So with the spring weather this weekend she wanted to test out the new toy, from here on let’s call it the beast.  She asks me to put the beast together so I did, which was rather simple but as I suspected a bit heavy.  This beast is electric so there’s no gas that can accidently spill on your head while you’re cutting a branch, that’s a plus. 

     Now that the beast is assembled I start the grass cutting while Mimi proceeds to cut some branches from the dogwood.  “Why did you cut those branches” I ask “Test cut” Mimi exclaims but “why did they need to be cut”.  “I didn’t like them”. “Well ok then”.

     Mimi then tackles the dead branch on the ugly tree in the front yard, which makes more sense to me but it’s a bigger branch and she sets the beast down when she is about half way through.  I say nothing and just continue cutting the grass.  Before long I notice she finished cutting the dead branch plus another decayed branch. Ok, so maybe this isn’t a bad idea.

     I moved on to the backyard and when I stopped to take a break Mimi says the chain came off so I told her I would fix it.  I ask why there is grass stuck in the chain.  “Well, I just saw some high grass so I trimmed it.”  "Really, with a chain saw".  It’s for wood, wooood, not grass.

    So I tighten the chain and showed her how it is done so she would be able to do it herself.  After finishing the grass as I'm walking in the house Mimi says, "This tree really needs to come down see how rotten it is" and while I agree it’s probably true, I‘m just not interested, I think it’s time for Beer-on-a-stick.

     Chain-saw-on-stick is such a great idea, I wonder what other dangerous product we can put on a stick.