We're Getting Hitched - Creative Exercise 16

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Introduction

    Everyone would think that getting married is a pleasant experience. I mean, you are totally head-over-hills for this person, and lets face it, you have been waiting your entire life for this moment. Or, have you?

    Marriage actually has nothing to do with the creative exercise I have chosen, but the title would lead you to believe that it is!

WE’RE GETTING HITCHED!


    We’re Getting Hitched! is the creative exercise I have chosen out of the infamous book CAFFEINE FOR THE CREATIVE MIND 250 EXERCISES TO WAKE UP YOUR BRAIN written by Stefan Mumaw and Wendy Lee Oldfield.

    This exercise is about an actual HITCH. You know, the hitch on the back of a truck or an SUV. It hauls things, a large amount of things, or heavy things from one place to another, usually trailers.

    Today the Hitch does not haul normal objects. Today I am instructed to come up with 10 other things that could be hauled by a hitch. These things are not to be traditional but odd.

The 10 Things for We’re Getting Hitched:

Harness to Haul my mother-n-law or any other unwanted family member or friend

A rope to pull a tube or mattress in the mud or whatever else you would like to pull

Lawn mower attachment to use your truck to mow large areas

Harness used to pull humans in the air with the when like going parasailing

Pull a protective shield for your car when there is bad weather

Attachment for a portable grill

Attachment for portable speakers and stands

Attachment for solar panels to help power a car or electronics

Attachment for a big spotlight

Net for a leaf catcher

Attachment for a portable toilet

Conclusion

    Lets just say that maybe the things for We’re Getting Hitched may be helpful in the event that a certain family member or friend is being a pest on your big day! So, maybe it can relate to marriage after all. This was a tricky exercise. It was hard to come up with ideas. The normal object that I am used to seeing on a hitch is a trailer. That is what I know a hitch to be used for! After I completed my list, some of these were handy ideas. My favorite idea was an attachment for a solar panel to help charge the car or other electronics. Electrical cars are slowly making their way into society, and who doesn’t need a charger for one thing or another.  This was another great exercise for coming up with ideas.

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