My first million?

Sitting on the hippy bus, looking for ways to annoy the fellow passengers - the ones who are easily annoyed anyway, I came up with an idea that might just be the one to make me my millions.

The object in question was a Pringles box, an empty one at that, but my mind got wondering to the overlanding I did in Africa where you sometimes had to perform No 2s, in the middle of the bush. Taking a crap outside does have it's difficulties, namely balancing properly and accuracy of your shooting. Add in to the mix the risk of squirting and outside pooing can be problematic in the extreme.

So it was, that I figured out the recycled Pringles box could be of use here. Not only can you sit directly on it when performing, but it should catch all your doobies, irrespective of the angle they are sent out. The Pringles box becomes a catch all box that leaves you happy to crap without the worries of unwanted dribbles / squirts or more hitting your legs or your clothes. Additionally the risk of splash back is all but eliminated with this wonderful new invention, this being a grave possibility when the ground is hard but the poo is soft.

So having decided that the Pringles box has a future, we next debated the potential names. My suggesiton, catch-it-all was poo pooed (sorry) by the market researchers, which was a bit miffing given "Shit in a tin" was the only alternative we had at that point.

Bus shortly after the creative juices were in full flow and we stumbled on 2 brilliant names, "Portapoo" and "Crap and nap". Both of these names came about when considering the potential uses of the box, with Festivals being an obvious option, given the appalling state of the public toilets. Crap and nap could be marketed at the "in tent" toilet goer who doesn't fancy leaving the tent and walking the half mile to the toilets in the night time. Portapoo simply plays on Portaloo and would enable the toilet goer to go behind a tree and avoid the queues, as well as being a cleaner experience that risking the toilets available.

So there it is people, Catch-it-all, Shit in a tin, Portapoo or Crap n Nap. Feel free to add comments on the suitability of names and keep an eye out for this genuius product making it's way onto the Dragons Den. We may not ever get this into production but hey, many great ideas take a while to get going and are often only truly appreciated when the inventor has passed on.