LIFE’S UPS AND DOWNS

If you didn’t catch this story on the Internet, you missed a beauty. “Boys Privy Prop Keeps The Lid On.” Some little genius has invented a foot-activated toilet seat that raises or lowers when you step on a pedal. The 9-year old is in a class for gifted and talented kids, and I think he gets his brains from his Father, and here’s why:

While her son, who is in the school's Talented and Gifted program, manages assignments with ease, he has one weak spot: remembering to lower the seat after he's done, his Mom said.

"My mom was getting mad at me for forgetting to put the toilet seat down and she was falling in," said Jake, a fourth-grader at Odebolt-Arthur Elementary School.

Need I say anymore about “Dad”?

"He's done this pretty much all his life," his mother said "He's in too big a hurry to take care of that. He's been reminded thousands of times over the years."

Do you think that Mom has a soggy bottom?

“Thousands of times over the years.”

The PRIVY PROP was selected by judges at the Invention Convention to advance to the regional contest in Pocahontas, where it was chosen to be displayed at the Iowa State Fair this past summer.

"Jake drew it all out and I supervised, Dad said. "I helped him with the tools to make sure he didn't cut off any fingers."

Jake has all 11 fingers in place, I’m happy to report.

Meanwhile Mom is feeling kind of weepy, from top to bottom, so to speak.