Toilet paper is very important to my youngest daughter, Rachel. Besides it's normal and more expected use, she uses it to make "casts" for her "broken" arms, leg, foot, head, etc. She uses it to make blankets for dolls, and in addition she uses it for general decorating.
Since she is always thinking about how things work and how things are made. I should not have been surprised when she came to me this morning with the following description of where toilet paper comes from.
Rachel: Is it possible to make toilet paper?
Gregg: Yes. Of course (I say in a groggy 6:30AM voice) Where do you think it comes from? It doesn't grow on trees! (Classic. Good one Dad)
R: Well, a machine could have made it.
G: That's true.
R: I know how a machine makes toilet paper.
G: How?
R: Well, first it takes two pieces of toilet paper and then it smashes them together and glues them together. Then another machine comes and pokes the dots in it and then you have toilet paper!
G: Really.
R: Yeah. I told this to Mom and she said, "You're right!"
G: Hmmm. Interesting. How do you get the first piece of toilet paper that the machine uses?
R: I don't really know.
Author's Note: When I asked her to repeat this story so I would get it right, she ripped off a section of toilet paper and illustrated all of the steps she had originally told me. She's always thinking!
How cute!
Posted by: Rightmyer Rants | August 27, 2008 at 09:14 AM
you should have taken photos of the process ....
gotta love the 6-year-old mind.
Posted by: LisaS | August 27, 2008 at 09:25 AM
I would have loved to, but as it turned out this became a last minute post as I was headed out the door for a meeting!
I didn't even have time to stick an archived photo of the little darling on the post.
Posted by: Gregg | August 27, 2008 at 09:31 AM
In the commercial the bear grabs it from the tree though..I don't understand. :-P
Posted by: MP | August 27, 2008 at 04:15 PM