Sometimes You Need a Thing
Necessity is the mother of invention. -Proverb This is a story about solving a simple problem with a lot of technology. What could have been a makeshift workaround became something different. I don't know if we've coined a phrase for it yet, but we probably should. That being said, this story is for entertainment purposes only, and designs associated with this story are to be used only at your own risk. Unforeseen Problems The story goes like this. I inherited a vehicle rooftop storage box from my father. For weeks after getting it, we'd been planning a trip where we intended to use it, so we'd already been planning all of our packing around having it. Being foolish, I automatically assumed it'd fit the stock roof aero cross bars on my wife's car. Being an engineer, I vowed to test this well before we attempted to make a trip with it. Being a father, I didn't get to the test phase until the night before the trip. Immediately upon getting the box on the ro