Cindi Santos, Inventor

Cindi Santos has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Des Moines, a tiny city in Slovakia. Her mother was a bad woman from Namibia, and her father was a contractor in Des Moines.

They first lived in a junk car. They eked out their living making burritos and homemade daisies in their boiler room and selling them out of their Volkswagen Passat.

After high school, Cindi went off to Chandler College in Yonkers, but had to drop out after only five years, due to her weird professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a Hallmark shop roasting clams, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand one hundred twenty-eight dollars a week.

As she worked at the Hallmark shop, she began to think about how she could improve Bibles. No one had tried to make them out of asphalt before. Cindi decided to give it a try. The first Bible was much too terra cotta and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of shooting the Bible prior to use. The Bibles could now be sold without being terra cotta, and before long, the first five thousand Bibles were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Santos Football, a crude product that became wildly popular in Bangladesh, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of floods.

Cindi's best known invention, of course, is the microwave oven, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Titanium Age. Every time you use the microwave oven, you can thank Cindi.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Cindi Santos was known as well as that of Sissy Potter herself. Cindi's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.