To Improve the Unimprovable

I have always been fascinated and thrilled by objects and organisms that have reached the end of their evolutionary path, the ones that have found their final shape eons ago and will never really change simply because they have reached perfection. Examples are: the spoon, the wedding ring, the wine glass, the horseshoe crab, the phonograph record, the word ‘no’, the clay flower pot, Neil Diamond, candles… They will remain forever. What’s there to improve on them? Nothing! Perfection on a stick! Sure, some con artist will come along and try to sell you a pink or bio-degradable flower pot, a hep new buzz word or a magic ring… but we should ignore those heinous imposters and marvel at the greatness of the Unimprovable.

To this illustrious family also belongs… the Plunger. Or does it! Today, I found one that is a drastic improvement on the classic model by the addition of a very useful handle! Why hasn’t this been thought of before? Why don’t all plungers have handles? Or Neil Diamond? In picture one, we see on the left the standard, old, troglodyte plunger that gives you splinters and subpar results in declogging the sink, and on the right we see the new TurboPlunger 2000 in hygienic plastic, an esthetical pleasing orange colour and a snazzy omnigrip handle. The unperfectable perfected, the unsurpassable surpassed!

(P.S. An update will follow when the handle comes loose and the suction cup breaks off.)