The past few weeks at Summit have been busy as always. Today we had a green recess with the kids of Boyd elementary. It’s a great time of the year for Green crafts. It’s spring, after all! A time of growth and fertility. A time to be Green! We had two different activities for the kids to do. With the first craft we used cardboard from food packaging and toilet rolls to make little flowers. I think these sorts of crafts teach the kids important lessons about the value of all of our resources. I mean, toilet paper rolls! So many people ignore their existence. In fact, I think many people have probably come to hate toilet paper rolls. You just got done going to the bathroom (don’t be shy, we all do it) and you look over, and there’s NO TOILET PAPER. Okay, well stay calm. There’s probably some toilet paper in the cabinet under the sink, right? It’ll be okay. Just open … that… cabinet… door.
But no. It’s empty. The cabinet is empty because either you or your housemates have just not gotten the chance to buy toilet paper. You are stranded on that toilet in a most vulnerable state, staring with disdain at that toilet paper roll. That toilet paper roll, which no matter how long you stair at it, will not produce any toilet paper.
And once that knight in shining armor produces that white roll of toilet paper, the first thing you do is victoriously slam dunk that toilet paper roll into the dark black hole by the toilet that is the trashcan.
BUT NO! Don’t do that! The trashcan???? Really??? The trashcan!!!?!? I think you know better than that. I hope you know better than that. You have just wasted one of the most versatile resources that you will ever have the honor of sitting next to while on the toilet. It’s this perfect cylindrical form, this circular prism made out of cardboard. Cardboard! Do you know what you can do with such a wonderful cardboard cylindrical prism?
Elmo figurines!
Pretty tree cutout art!
Lamp shades!
Irishmen!
Napkin holders!
Think about that next time you sit in anguish on the toilet, wondering how you will ever escape this toilet paperless prison. Think of how you could embrace this opportune material, the toilet paper roll.
Desirée
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