New uses for an old classic

I attended the Woodpile Chamber of Commerce meeting the other night. I am not really big on meetings, but I heard a rumor that the Bottomless Cup Café was giving away coupons for a free cup of coffee. Turned out you had stay for the whole meeting to get your coupon at the end. I was about to leave before things got started then I remembered my wife had a long list of chores around the burrow, so, I decided to stay. I am glad I did.

I was pleasantly amazed at the diversity of small critter owned businesses at the Woodpile. There are a couple of MIT graduates running a startup that just patented an automatic sunflower seed sheller. It can process a 1000 seeds an hour, very impressive. Three young ‘munks talked about their sunflower flavored lemonade stand that they are franchising throughout New England. You humans might want to get in on that deal.

At the social hour after the meeting I ran into Ms. Winters who owns a public relations and advertisement firm. They work out of an abandon rundown warehouse burrow. I have never given much thought to them. Apparently, they handle 40% of the advertising accounts for Fortune 500 critter companies in the U.S. I was asked if I wanted to participate in a marketing brainstorming session for their latest client. Who would that be, I asked? L.L. Bean that famous human retail store just hired them. The human market for their famous L.L. Bean boots has become saturated and they were looking for new emerging markets for their boots. They felt the critter market was completely untouched.

L.L. Bean shipped some product samples to the Woodpile. The brainstorming team gathered to get to work on some advertising concepts. The sales executives at L.L. Bean recognized that boots were obviously too big for chipmunk paws. Efforts to shrink the size had met with mixed results. They wanted to know what other uses they could be put them to that would be attractive to critters?Any ideas?

Wow, I never realized how big human paws were!

 I wonder how many chipmunks we can fit inside?

 You can get three chipmunks inside comfortably.

These make great picnic baskets that can be converted into a table.

 

With the increased crop yields we have been getting with our sunflower gardens, storage space has been at a premium in most burrows. Portable storage units for the harvest season I think will be in big demand.

What’s the capacity of this boot? Let me get some measurements. 

This is cavernous inside. I estimate this has capacity of 10,000 seeds.

Can I take this one home, please?!

 

I wonder if the boot could float? Add a motor and propeller and you got yourself a boat.

They could sell do-it-yourself add-on kits.

I have a better idea. These low top models can be made into a roadster. I can just imagine myself traveling Route 66 across country in one of these.