Didn’t watch the Super Bowl last night…
(although I did watch some of the commercials this
morning)
Instead…
I watched a few
episodes of Into the West on Netflix.
It’s an amazing mini
series of how two families…
One white, the
other Native American…
Become mingled
through the momentous events…
Of American
expansion.
And while watching
the story unfold…
And how arduous,
dangerous, and often tragic…
Their life was…
All I kept wondering
about was toilet paper.
OK, when the
settlers were in the woods…
There were possibilities…
But on the plains?
With nary a tree
in sight?
Or in the snowy mountains with pine trees?
Um, what did they use?
So while I believe
I could survive…
On beans, bacon,
bread, and dried fruit for a year…
I would not survive
one day…
Without toilet paper.
And that got me
thinking of paper.
I think paper is
one of the most important…
If not THE most
important…
Inventions of
modern man.
Because I wouldn’t
want to be in a world…
That didn’t have
paper that I could write on…
And books made of
paper that I could read…
And most
definitely…
A bathroom
without paper to…
Well, you get the
picture.
So?
What do you think
the most important invention…
Of modern man is?
Always, Em-Musing
7 comments:
Most would say the computer, but you have a point. I couldn't live without toilet paper either.
I'm glad I didn't watch the superbowl, a power outage during the game was embarrassing.
I can't decide on just one. I'm too much of a modern-day wimp. I like a warm house without busting up firewood. I like a machine to wash and dry my clothes. And one that washes my dishes too. Well, you get the picture. So maybe I'd say electricity. Without it, so much in my life would be too much work.
Right behind toilet paper is air conditioning. Now I know why people beat feet out west. The humidity of the South and Midwest drove them.
Toilet paper is definitely a really important one! But since I hate doing the dishes and don't have a dishwasher, I'm going with a dishwasher. I really really wish I had one of those!!
I have to go with HRT. I don't know how women made it through menopause without drugs. I don't know how men lived through their mood swings. How did civilization continue on?
Ha! Toilet paper--such a thing we take for granted. Actually the whole sewer system is a must too. :)
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