I can't resist, I'm joining in the fun!

With so many people entering the Creativity Contest, I was starting to feel a little left out. 

It's a fault of mine.  When there's creative thinking going on, I can't stop my brain from joining in.

So, here goes.  My random word is "mouse".

At first, I started off thinking of the small size of a mouse.

Except I had to veto that way of thinking because the Smart cars are already so much smaller than other cars.

Secondly, my mind went to the mouseholes.

In our house, we have plenty of mice (we live in a forest), but we almost never see their holes.  The mice always tuck their holes into corners, behind folds, and in natural crevices.

That made me think of how garages are always so obvious. 

There's a huge door, and many garages face the street.  But why do we always have to KNOW that there is a garage there?  Why couldn't garages be tucked away out of sight and made less obtrusive?

And then mousetraps came up.

When I was younger, we used mousetraps to power Styrofoam cars in one of my technology classes.  It was amazing how far the cars would go when the mousetrap was released.

Why couldn't a similar spring system be used to jump-start car s into motion?  Perhaps the braking action could prime a spring, and the gas pedal could release it.

Speeding up is the most energy-intensive part of driving a car.  If a spring could transfer the energy lost while breaking into energy to propel the car into motion, a lot of energy would be saved.

Of course, I didn't forget cheese!

Mice love cheese, but there's nothing worse than cheese that has set out too long and gone rancid.  This made me think of taking food (in general) home from the grocery store.

When it's a hot day, it's very easy for temperature-sensitive foods (like ice cream) to get too warm.

So what if cars were equipped with a refrigerating trunk?  Then shoppers wouldn't have to worry about sensitive food spoiling!  Might just be as simple as adding an air-conditioning vent to the trunk.

Phew! Glad I got that out of my system.  Now I can go back to enjoying all the other fresh submissions!

And trust me, this contest is fun.  Click right over to the Random Word Creativity Contest,  get your word, and join in!