Bridget Borovich, Inventor

Bridget Borovich has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Oklahoma City, a soft city in Poland. Her mother was a polite woman from India, and her father was a chef in Oklahoma City.

They first lived in a manor house. They eked out their living making crumb cake and homemade brochures in their front porch and selling them out of their Saturn Vue.

After high school, Bridget went off to Bishop College in Lubbock, but had to drop out after only four years, due to her absent-minded professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a fabric store grinding piggy banks, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one thousand seven hundred fifteen dollars a week.

As she worked at the fabric store, she began to think about how she could improve Big Gulps. No one had tried to make them out of plaster of Paris before. Bridget decided to give it a try. The first Big Gulp was much too nice and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of punching the Big Gulp prior to use. The Big Gulps could now be sold without being nice, and before long, the first eight thousand Big Gulps were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Borovich Ironing board, a gleaming product that became wildly popular in Zambia, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of pelting rainstorms.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Bridget Borovich was known as well as that of Kaitlyn Osborne herself. Bridget's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.