Right now, there is demand for a humble, yet important paper product. Who knew the toilet paper was respected for the work it performs in our lives? The current outbreak of COVID-19, exposes the (always knew) essential role toilet paper plays.

I made a mad dash to my neighbourhood coffee shop for latte. The place was empty except for two ladies, seemingly friends, sitting socially distant in a far corner; their turtleneck shirts pulled up to their noses. All I heard from their conversation was; gotta stock up on toilet paper.

Why? I said to myself.

Most, if not all. of us hesitate to talk about that paper over coffee, in public. I gulped the last mouth full of my latte and hurried to the superstore to get (you guessed it) –toilet paper.

I won’t belabor the subject — just saying, in times of crisis, one never knows what could be a must have, in order to survive.

Olive Rose Steele is the author of WATT TOWN ROAD: In retrospect. http://www.blackwoodself-publishingmadeeasy.com