We miss pneumatic tubes. Here are some ways that pneumatic tubes should be incorporated into our lives:

1: at the grocery store. Instead of carrying items to the checkout, you swipe them with your rfid tag that is embedded in your cell phone, then put them in a nearby pneumatic tube. The items are sucked away and collected somewhere nearby, where you can drive by and pick up all of your purchases. Better yet, they go directly to your home, see item 4.

2: pet grooming. Put your pet in, it comes out groomed.

3: laundry. This could be a pneumatic tube, or, frankly, just a plain old tube or big hole in the floor. The advantage of a pneumatic tube is that it allows the laundry to extend past your own laundry machine and possibly go down the street to a friend or neighbor’s laundry machine, where they probably have better detergent options.

4: pneumatic tubes directly between home and preferred vendors. For ice cream, chinese take-out, or that last-minute pepto-bismol.

5: Do you ever think that paypal is a big scam? Use the pneumatic tube to get cold, hard, cash directly to your living room.