Katy Washington, Inventor

Katy Washington has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Kiev, a hollow city in Venezuela. Her mother was a gallant woman from Puerto Rico, and her father was a calligrapher in Kiev.

They first lived in a cardboard box. They eked out their living making fried okra and homemade boxes of Kleenex in their pool room and selling them out of their Chevy Caprice.

After high school, Katy went off to Badwell College in Rotterdam, but had to drop out after only two years, due to her phlegmatic professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a supermarket sanding pencil sharpeners, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand six hundred seven dollars a week.

As she worked at the supermarket, she began to think about how she could improve Happy Meals. No one had tried to make them out of bronze before. Katy decided to give it a try. The first Happy Meal was much too smooth and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of washing the Happy Meal prior to use. The Happy Meals could now be sold without being smooth, and before long, the first six thousand Happy Meals were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Washington Balloon, a crisp product that became wildly popular in Azerbaijan, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of rainstorms.

Katy's best known invention, of course, is the calendar, one of the major accomplishments of the 20th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Hemp Age. Every time you use the calendar, you can thank Katy.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Katy Washington was known as well as that of Edna Ferguson herself. Katy's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.