What awesome ideas did you have when you were young that are now horrible ideas?

@Cinoclav Amen

@Cinoclav can't believe I actually wanted to.

@JonT It seemed so responsible at the time.

@rockblossom

@rockblossom Moms always take away all the fun, whereas dads encourage it. I'm glad I'm a dad and not a mom.

@theco2 Moms are smarter than dads.

@katblue Moms are just more practical. Repeat trips to the emergency room tend to get expensive.

@katblue Dads know boys will be boys and the more you tell them not to, the more they will want to do it. Reverse psychology.

@theco2 @rockblossom Moms don't want to endure the pain of making a replacement when the current one breaks.

@JasonToon

@remo28 Just daily? I'm gonna need more than one snack a day. So how about you add a spinning wheel and it spits out whatever you land on?? A Wheel of Snacks Clock. "Pudding for Johnny. Oh, sorry Tommy, it's Vienna sausages for you."

@pitamuffin of course not, it should be able to dispense as often as you want. So it could be 2 times a day or hourly. But you have to restock it.

@remo28 If it dispenses as often as you want we just call it a vending machine...

@Cinoclav no money added, and you schedule it because it has a clock. You can't just walk up and hit a button. Say at 10 am you want a banana, then you put a banana in a slot programmed for 10 am and bam at 10am you had a mid morning banana. Set it at 2pm to spit out a Kit Kat on Monday and maybe m&ms on Tuesday. I thought of it when I was hungry and didn't want to get up. I still think it's a lovely idea.

@remo28 If you can schedule it as often as you want it basically defeats the purpose of having a time release. I'd schedule it every 5 minutes.

@hamjudo This ^^

@hamjudo I'd rather put my money behind Veridian Dynamics. They have made a sheep, so I'm guessing goats would be simple enough.

@defibrillator Awesome

@defibrillator I'm glad you're alive to tell the tale.

@defibrillator Yeah, you could have ended up like Arzt.

@defibrillator You found some of those cool Italian dee-na-mee-té candles!

@defibrillator That reminds me, in its insanity, of our old swimming hole in Alabama. You sat on the bank and slid down about 10 feet into the murky water, and to get out you climbed up roots and drooping tree branches. Sometimes you had to climb out real quick when a water moccassin swam past. And it was a good hour's walk into the woods from civilization. It's a wonder none of us got killed. As far as inventions, as a kid before call waiting I envisioned a little blinking light on your phone when someone else was trying to call you. I've had a lot of good ideas for inventions but never had the engineering capability to mock up a prototype.

@pitamuffin I think the last 3 or 4 generations believed that would happen, along with the flying cars.

@pitamuffin So maybe the readers of Meh would be good pilots of jet packs, but just imagine all of those idiots out there that don't even seem to know where their going let alone how to fly in 3 dimensions!

@pitamuffin Flying cars. It's probably a terrible idea but I'm still bummed that the most exciting new form of transport is a Segway.

@dave Pneumatic tubes were still in use at the Pentagon when I worked there in the '80s. There were several conduits, one with a rather sharp curve, in the ceiling above my work station. I got used to the occasional: Whooosh! ThumpThumpThump WHACK Whooosh! sound, but visitors were startled. When they asked "What the bloody hell was THAT?" our usual bland answer was "Mice."

@dave Those pipes don't look big enough for anything from Meh other than maybe a rolled up t-shirt.

@luvche21 T-shirt delivery via pneumatic tubes?!? O.O

@narfcake Yes please!

@dave I work in the building that was the 2nd Post Office building, and there are pneumatic tubes everywhere. I want so badly to figure out how to turn them on before I eventually leave...

@brhfl And shoot M&M's though them. The sky will rain chocolate then!! Yum!!

@luvche21 I bet of you crush the stuff up, nicely, about anything will fit in there. @brhfl That would be amazing! Now I want it to rain M&M's.

@dave I remember seeing a fancy routable pneumatic tube system when my grandma was in the hospital. I think they used it for meds and samples.

@dave @jqubed is right. The hospital I work for uses a pneumatic tube system to get meds from the pharmacy to different floors in the hospital.

@christinerenee you were an awesome kid

@luvche21 your flying thing reminds me of this car from Top Gear.

@Ignorant Cool! I haven't seen that one yet, but it looks even worse than that old 3 wheeler that they featured once.

@luvche21 Ha, the Robin... The small car that Jeremy designed was horrible, loud and slow, but I really enjoyed that episode.

@capguncowboy I was thinking more of these death traps:

@capguncowboy Here's an even better shot from Top Gear:

@luvche21 yes, the Robin. I think it's made by Reliant. Another funny episode.

@Kidsandliz Ii think most of these ideas ended up ruining things.

@luvche21 Well yes the skates, but we mostly blew up sand in the sand box...

@luvche21 Actually as a kid I made a really cool marble run from cut up pop cans, toilet paper tubes, paper towel tubes and duct tape. Until we learned they actually sold kits to do this we thought we had the newest and best new toy idea to sell. We had these plans that we'd sell it to a toy company and get rich. Either that or sell them at a lemonade stand ourselves. Trouble was took ages to get enough pop cans because we didn't drink that much pop in our house.

@Keyeno That idea: still awesome.

@Keyeno Reminds me of the old joke about crossing an elephant and a rhino. What do you get? Elephino (pronounced 'ell if I know)

@cengland0 What do you get when you cross a bulldog and a shi tzu? Bullshit. Really really cute bullshit.

@moondrake I remember that line from the movie Dumb and Dumber.

@cengland0 I've never seen that film, I just heard the joke someplace. I have no tolerance for zany comedy. Jeff Daniels' drama-leavened-with-humor role on Newsroom is my preferred flavor of funny.

@moondrake I actually liked the movie. The sequels were horrible though. The humor was sick, gross, and stupid -- but that's what made it funny. You should at least see it one time by putting it on your bucket list.

@cengland0 "The humor was sick, gross and stupid" Any one of those three would get a film kicked out of my bucket, not into it. Life isn't long enough to see all the movies or read all the books I will actually enjoy, I don't have room for stuff like this. Different strokes, as they say. Plenty of my friends enjoy this type of humor, which is probably where I heard that joke.

@earlyre And you have to remember the pattern to shut it off, when you are still half asleep, which might change, daily. Or it might not change. Awesome!

@theco2 @earlyre It's like those alarm clocks that make you do a math problem before you can turn off the sound.

@theco2 They ought to put that on car ignitions to keep drunks from driving.

@moondrake It would help keep a lot of other people off the road, too. This could be an all around win.

@nadroj A degree in English Literature!!!

@nadroj I don't know, that seems a little more practical than many other careers... including my own.

@mikibell Ooh, and mine in music education... at least I didn't go the performance route.

@Pamtha Me too. "Ya, right. commercialize the Internet - when you wait ten minutes to download one pic of a lousy product. That's what the classifieds are for!"

@Pamtha Does anyone remember CDNow? Back in about 1995 they had a table set up on my college campus, trying to get people to order CDs on the Internet. And I thought it was the dumbest idea ever. Why would I wait for a CD to come in the mail when I could just go to the record store?

@SunnyBeach There were a few places around me that did this once upon a time. Here's one: http://articles.philly.com/1990-07-29/news/25899245_1_video-store-video-delivery-pizza

@Teripie We all know that it's goat farms where it's at

@Teripie Can't have too many ponies.

@Teripie Ponies!

@narfcake Well, there's always the 2015 Honda Fit, with the gas tank right below the driver's seat. That's supposed to protect it from rear-end collisions. I think I'll pass.

@rockblossom would that be "passing the torch" on that one?

@Kidsandliz Let's just say that I have no burning desire to drive one.

@rockblossom Its location is actually one of the best, within the protection of the passenger cell. If one were to be hit so hard to damage the gas tank, the driver would be crushed too.

@narfcake Yes. My forebrain says you (and the Honda engineers) are correct, but my back brain begs to differ. Kinda like when the Doc was using a Stryker saw to remove a cast from my leg. I know perfectly well how the saw works and why it was safe. My backbrain still wanted to scream and hobble away.

@narfcake I had a '65 Dodge van that the front seats were in front of the front wheels. There was a weird feeling when you steered and the engine was between the driver's & passenger's seats.

@Kyser_Soze A100 series van.

@narfcake I used to drive a big Dodge pickup. Hondas and Fiats were my potential crumple zones.

@Kyser_Soze Similar weird feeling as when you drive a cab-over rental truck? Like this:

@narfcake The designers were "on fire" when they designed that car.

@hallmike Doesn't technology ruin everything? ;)

@Headly You just had solid gold pop out of your head? Sounds like you had a lot of problems as a child....

@techdude9 when I was a kit gold was $300/ oz. I sold all me ideas in 2012. That paid for a lot of problems