Bailey Flake, Inventor

Bailey Flake has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in Baltimore, a polka-dotted city in Norway. Her mother was a mean woman from Italy, and her father was a fortune teller in Baltimore.

They first lived in a church. They eked out their living making egg rolls and homemade cans of sardines in their atrium and selling them out of their Mercury Cougar.

After high school, Bailey went off to New York College in Fort Worth, but had to drop out after only ten years, due to her adorable professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at a shoe shine booth plasticizing cactus plants, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on two thousand two hundred seventy-seven dollars a week.

As she worked at the shoe shine booth, she began to think about how she could improve forks. No one had tried to make them out of cookie dough before. Bailey decided to give it a try. The first fork was much too ridged and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of soaking the fork prior to use. The forks could now be sold without being ridged, and before long, the first six thousand forks were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Flake Hat, a torn product that became wildly popular in Honduras, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot days.

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

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Bailey Flake was known as well as that of Scott Torres himself. Bailey's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.