What did you 'invent' then discovered was already a thing?

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When i was young i stayed in a tent watching my dad fishing and some people were on a boat fishing and i invented a floating cabin you could fish from and stay in . Years later saw someone had beaten me to it.
Also remember being told i was daft for suggestion using the vacuum cleaner to dry up the shower.

Aged 8 or so, I remember sitting on my bed thinking; I decided to get off the bed but then thought "what if I don't?". Then I thought maybe there are 2 worlds, one where I get off the bed and one where I don't. And maybe there are lots of universes, and every time we make a decision the universe splits.

Then I grew up and studied physics and learned about the multiverse theory, and thought "I invented that!" 😂

I did end up with a PhD in Theoretical Physics, mind.

Similarly my grandma invented hoodies ,circa 1981 both myself and my sister were sporting knitted jumpers with hoods lovingly knitted by grandma ,absolutely loved mine
My dh,had the idea that kids could be implanted with tracking devices ,,their are now tracking Apps on phones etc.

When I was about 7, I wrote to Walkers Crisps asking why they didn't make curry flavoured crisps... this was in the 80's. I got a letter back advising there was no market for it!

I invented the term 'looks good on paper'

Saw some American Sports personality usually MY term a few years later

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I invented the name Talia. When I was 12 my best friend was Natalia. I thought how lovely Talia would be

@ThingsChristmasJumper I think you've missed the point of the thread!
...unless the posters above actually did invent the library, the bus and the word twat?! 😜

@LittleGreenDuck that sounds very tasteful! Mine was a kind of turquoise with white cuffs on the sleeves and legs.

My family always take the piss because when I was a child I used to insist i invented the word ‘constipated’ 😂

Not mine, but I remember one of Jamie Oliver’s early books where he describes how he and his sister used to liven up boring ice cream by crushing sweets into it and calling them ‘smush-ins’. I’m sure the emergence of the McFlurry a few years after that book was entirely coincidental.

I also remember my mum wanting to liven up some thawed out prawns, so she fried them up with some chilli oil and garlic and put them on toasted rye bread - she didn’t know it’s a thing in Spain.

This sort of thing always happens with cooking, I find. You’re forever finding that your favourite way of rescuing a cooking disaster or tired ingredients has some sort of fancy name in the culinary lexicon…😂