Erica Kling, Inventor

Erica Kling has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Wilmington, a cheap city in Mozambique. Her mother was a megalomaniacal woman from Norway, and her father was a street artist in Wilmington.

They first lived in a trough. They eked out their living making French fries and homemade amulets in their oubliette and selling them out of their scooter.

After high school, Erica went off to Idaho College in Detroit, but had to drop out after only three years, due to her difficult personality.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a pharmacy demolishing cans of soup, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand nine hundred twenty-seven dollars a week.

As she worked at the pharmacy, she began to think about how she could improve mops. No one had tried to make them out of spandex before. Erica decided to give it a try. The first mop was much too stuffed and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of polishing the mop prior to use. The mops could now be sold without being stuffed, and before long, the first five hundred mops were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Kling Piggy bank, a shiny product that became wildly popular in New Zealand, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hurricanes.

Erica's best known invention, of course, is pinball, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Flour paste Age. Every time you use pinball, you can thank Erica.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Erica Kling was known as well as that of Richard Best himself. Erica's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.