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Woman gets high, forgets million-dollar idea to sell Pringle-flavoured Pringles

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After smoking marijuana to help improve her creative process, a Ringmer woman has had the idea of a lifetime – and promptly forgotten it.

Elena Kirk, 23, rolled a satisfyingly fat one, smoked it while listening to jazz music (which, despite her altered state, was unfortunately still jazz music) and began enthusiastically typing the abundance of ideas that followed into her iPhone notes.

“I felt like I’d finally unlocked my true potential as a creative genius,” explained Elena. “I would normally spend hours staring hopelessly at a blank screen, but one spliff and I was Frida fucking Kahlo. She was an entrepreneur, right?”

“Then it happened – I had my million-dollar idea. I’ve never been so excited about an idea before and will probably never feel like that again. It felt like destiny. I immediately wrote it down and then tucked into a celebratory feast of grapes dipped in Nutella, served on cheese crackers.”

But disaster struck when Elena opened up her iPhone notes the following morning. While she recalled having written down the idea itself the night before, she had actually just recorded the words “million-dollar idea.”

Underneath were the words: “idea for TV show: woman opens TV agency” followed by the words “research TV agencies” and concluded with a final thought: “what’s a TV agency?”

A source close to Elena, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “Elena’s million-dollar idea was to invent Pringle-flavoured Pringles. She happened to be eating Pringles at the time. I don’t have the heart to tell her.”

Sara Gibbs

Sara is editor-in-chief of Succubus. Sara studied Writing & Producing Comedy at the NFTS and has written for The Now Show, Dead Ringers, The News Quiz, The Daily Mash and The Mash Report. Sara makes it her business to be at least five years behind the latest trends, so she can devote more time to her Tamagotchi.