I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires, a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil, baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings.
At a Goodwill donations store in California, an employee who was sorting through a box of donated items found something pretty valuable wrapped in foil, $46,000 in cold hard cash.
This is a cube pressed from about three big bags of shreds of plastic and foil and just random bits that represent us not quite having everything figured out.
I'm picturing my white friends being wrapped in tinfoil blankets and fed cocoa, and me being perp walked off the tarmac by Homeland Security. Not today, government black site.