“Tearing flowers is easy and simple

To small children.

But for those who are so tall

It’s not easy to pick a flower”

K.I.Chukovsky

This, I remember from childhood, was the signature in the “Murzilka” picture with a giraffe.

And WHAT about small PEOPLE, a few of my old friends, whose advanced age leaves no room for hope of GROWING UP OVER TIME, in a supermarket where the top shelves are two and a half meters high, and there is no way to reach them?

Waiting for a high-profile buyer who will help?

Or a store employee?

The stores sell sticks with a grip just for such cases, BUT THEY ARE LONG AND DO NOT FOLD!!!

And walking with such a stick sticking out is EXTREMELY INCONVENIENT.

I thought of it!

A retractable indoor TV antenna with “hooks” glued on the ends!

I made them out of old indoor antennas that had been around for a long time.

24 V 2025

P.S. I apologize to the readers.

My school friend, Vladimir, after reading my opus, immediately responded to me with fair and scathing criticism, quoted below.

We sat at the same desk for three years. He’s an excellent student, A GOLD MEDALIST!!! He graduated from high school with a Gold Medal. He became a brilliant electrical engineer and inventor. (Holder of several US patents)

I’m a triple-double.

(I got an ANNUAL grade in Russian Language and Literature. The teacher, putting it up, said: You, “dear,” do not know how to express your THOUGHTS clearly and COMPETENTLY! And she made it clear with a glance that she doubted their presence at all! In mathematics, it’s a weak three, just out of the kindness of the teacher).

But we were and still are good true friends.

In its description below:

A) FOLDING grip!

C) And his comment on my “deliverer”

I expressed my sincere gratitude to him for both!

It weighs about 300 g, is 40 cm long when folded in half, and costs $9.00 on Amazon.

When the hook you offer removes the object from above, it (the object), as you write, falls into your hands, occupied with “deliverer”.

And if not in your hands, but on the floor, or worse, on your head?