Maximilian David, Inventor

Maximilian David has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Riverside, a stolen city in Rwanda. His mother was a merry woman from Myanmar, and his father was a designer in Riverside.

They first lived in a junk car. They eked out their living making cornbread and homemade chairs in their den and selling them out of their Smart Car.

After high school, Maximilian went off to Ohio College in Shreveport, but had to drop out after only six years, due to his witty professors.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a pharmacy flattening bags of popcorn, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on one hundred eighty-five dollars a week.

As he worked at the pharmacy, he began to think about how he could improve handkerchiefs. No one had tried to make them out of peanut shell before. Maximilian decided to give it a try. The first handkerchief was much too ragged and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of pulverizing the handkerchief prior to use. The handkerchiefs could now be sold without being ragged, and before long, the first two thousand handkerchiefs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the David Hand puppet, a disgusting product that became wildly popular in The Czech Republic, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hot days.

Maximilian's best known invention, of course, is WD-40, one of the major accomplishments of the 18th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Titanium Age. Every time you use WD-40, you can thank Maximilian.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Maximilian David was known as well as that of Mitch Shepard himself. Maximilian's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.