My New Travel Invention: The SquatStrap™

I’ve had a lot of entrepreneurial ideas lately. None of them particularly good, but amusing nonetheless. I think my coup de gras is what I’m officially trademarking as the “SquatStrap”. Actually let me officially make that SquatStrap™ so no one steals my idea.

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For the average What About Bob? germaphobe subway traveler, there’s the TranStrap. Now imagine we apply that idea to squat toilets: we take the TranStrap and attach a suction cup to the business end.

Forget the burning leg cramps from hovering above the bowl for five-ten minutes. After finding a suitable squat toilet, the user simply suctions the Strap to a nearby wall and presto! No more cramps from holding yourself up. Let your hands, not your hams, take the beating.

TranStrap

Imagine the entire worldwide community of backpackers with SquatStraps™. You could sidle up to your fellow leather tramping chaps as you hover virtually effortlessly over the bowl, chatting and giggling for hours while the SquatStrap™ does all the heavy lifting.

Sure, it’s a bit flawed. What if there’s no nearby wall, for example? It’s just a first draft, people. I’m still working out the kinks. Rome wasn’t built in a day, ya know.

(Please send all venture capital funding to: sheerbrillance [at] vagabondish.com)

Founding Editor
  1. I’m thinking of roadtrips across Vietnam…the walls were either moldy and peeling or dripping with humidity; I doubt that even geckos and other suction-footed creatures manage to make it up and down those walls:) You could totally market this for train use though. Or maybe they all have regular toilets now..I don’t know.

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