Teenage inventions

I was driving with the teenage boys from our church today and they were comparing their ideas to get rich (because, as one told me in deep sincerity, "Asay, I've decided that I have to be extremely rich because I don't like living poor"). It was interesting to see how their ideas emerged from daily struggles their families or they have.

To wit:

• Vitamin-laced cigarettes for people who can't quit smoking. Sure, you'll still die of lung cancer, but at least you got that zinc along the way....
  
• A medicated pillowcase that kills acne while you sleep.

I hated to tell them that showering and washing their sheets on more than an annual basis could go a long way toward easing the acne of the second idea, but let them dream. They're still young.