So I'm at the store, in the Health Food Dept. and I see a lovely "Earthy" woman and her son. I'm checking out the teas to see if something catches my eye in the Tension Reliever catagory and I hear the woman tell her son "No. They only have virgin toilet paper. I guess we can wait."
What?
Her young son says, "What do you mean?" Thank you little boy, my thoughts exactly but not brave enough to turn and ask.
"Virgin toilet paper is paper that hasn't been recycled " she says. "They had to cut down a tree to make that toilet paper. So we'll just tough it out until the recycled toilet paper is here."
WHAT?!?
I look in my cart and see the multi-pak of Virgin paper towels staring back at me. Oh the humanity! I've chopped down a whole damn tree just so I could clean my counter-tops and wipe my hands!
Ugh.
I felt this woman was trying to make a point with me and that was annoying. Does anybody really need to speak that loudly about toilet paper?
I reduce. I reuse. I recycle. Now I would like to start a movement (no pun intended) to Re-name "Recycled Toilet Paper." The images that conjures are incredibly disturbing.
What?
Her young son says, "What do you mean?" Thank you little boy, my thoughts exactly but not brave enough to turn and ask.
"Virgin toilet paper is paper that hasn't been recycled " she says. "They had to cut down a tree to make that toilet paper. So we'll just tough it out until the recycled toilet paper is here."
WHAT?!?
I look in my cart and see the multi-pak of Virgin paper towels staring back at me. Oh the humanity! I've chopped down a whole damn tree just so I could clean my counter-tops and wipe my hands!
Ugh.
I felt this woman was trying to make a point with me and that was annoying. Does anybody really need to speak that loudly about toilet paper?
I reduce. I reuse. I recycle. Now I would like to start a movement (no pun intended) to Re-name "Recycled Toilet Paper." The images that conjures are incredibly disturbing.