“Where to buy a TinkleLooking for a Christmas stocking stuffer? Wee Winkle Tinkle can be purchased at the South Whidbey Children’s Center in Langley. Cost is $6, and half the proceeds benefit the center. For more information about Wee Winkle Tinkle, contact inventor Ana Unum at 360-321-4219. The holiday season is an appropriate time to unveil a product that helps keeps women out of toilets and supports charitable organizations at the same time. Ana Unum, who lives in the woods near Langley, is now marketing her Wee Winkle Tinkle toilet seat signaling device, ending several years of inspiration and design, culminating with the rare achievement of a United States patent. Wee Winkle Tinkle is a stick-on electronic musical device that is placed underneath a toilet seat. It plays music when the toilet seat is raised, and doesn’t quit until the lid is placed back down. The music reminds men to stop the music before they leave the bathroom. It should end once and for all the problem women face with raised seats, particularly in the dark. “Women need not fall in the toilet bowl again because the toilet seat has been left up,” said Unum, who approaches marketing with a great sense of humor. The concept itself is funny, she admits. “Most people bust up laughing when they see it,” she said. And she plays the role of Wee Winkle Tinkle salesperson to the hilt, adopting such nicknames as The Latrine Queen and Her Royal Princess of Porcelain. In her Latrine Queen persona, Unum dons a golden crown centered around a roll of toilet paper, and wears a flowing robe and other royal adornments. A toilet seat serves as her scepter. In this role she entertains and educates at a state-run kids camp for abused and neglected children. Unum, an upholsterer by profession, found herself frustrated with human nature a few years ago. “God, what do you want me to do with my life?” she asked. In reply, she learned that God has a sense of humor. “The concept of the Wee Winkle Tinkle toilet lid position signal came to me in a dream and a vision,” she said. “Though I thought God was joking, he also works in mysterious ways.” It was no easy road to travel from concept to finished product. Unum’s father, a retired rocket scientist, helped write the scientific description. She learned about electronic toy suppliers in Asia, as well as business management and marketing. A friend, Tinker Ackley, drafted drawings that appear in the U.S. Patent papers. The first 4,000 Wee Winkle Tinkles have arrived. Each plays the tune, “You are My Sunshine,” although Unum wrote some amusing alternative lyrics to match the Wee Winkle Tinkle theme. Unum envisions many musical choices in the future, from folk songs and pop hits to fraternity ditties. She envisions them placed in the bathrooms of homes, dormitories, hotels and schools. For Unum, the main goal of her creation is to help the community by making the Wee Winkle Tinkle available for fund-raising projects. South Whidbey Children’s Center in Langley is the first to put them up for sale. “Children are our future and need all the help we can give them,” Unum said. You could tell she was serious, even though she was speaking through a toilet seat. “