Worst things ever invented.

Two inventions drive me so crazy that I think their inventors should be publicly flogged! What fool invented the neverending hold button, so that the rest of us can waste many, many hours of each day? And then some fool came up with the automated answering/routing machine that protects humans from us, especially if we really need to contact them in a major hurry! I've waited a total (over several days) of 19 hours to ask how to go about returning a product I didn't order and don't want to pay for, and I haven't gotten through yet. Before long, the period of time allowed for returns will end, and there's not a return address on the package or the product! Those clever scammers will bill my account for something I want to return!

There's a small exhibit in the British Library at the moment of useless or strange inventions. For example, the "digitorium" - a soundless piano to exercise the fingers, steering wheel warmers, self pouring teapot and loads more I can't quite remember. Yet some of them seem like really good ideas, for example a hollow necklace for putting your chewing gum in when you're finished with it - I could often do with one of them.