Seniors Celebrate Toilet Paper 'Birthday'

[Champ]

EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Something often taken for granted but hard to live without — toilet paper — was celebrated by residents of a retirement community. Thelma Brittingham, in charge of the celebration at Holiday Retirement Village, told the Evansville Courier & Press that she wanted to give her fellow residents a reason to smile.



So Thursday, they ate ice cream and cake and put up decorations to celebrate the invention of the bathroom necessity.


Estimates vary, but Brittingham said she found after some research that some believe Aug. 26, 580, was the first time toilet paper, in a primitive form, was used. She said that even if it is not the exact date, there was still cause for a celebration.


"When some people heard we were celebrating toilet paper's birthday, they asked me, 'Have you lost your mind?' But it's just a lot of fun," she said. "So many of these people don't get out, don't laugh, and anything we can do to encourage laughter, we'll do."

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[Kadie]

1. Happy Birthday toilet paper

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