First-time encounter with toilet roll

EVERY Papua New Guinean has an experience to share, something that they have encountered from the use of an invention or a product that was new, unusual, strange or as amazing as it may seem.
I have several stories to tell.
Here is one I wish to share of an account as a fresh Grade Seven student.
It was my first day at high school and my first time to walk into the dining hall with other students for the evening meal.
As soon as I entered the dining hall, I went and sat at a table a senior student from the same village as me was sitting.
After the announcements by the duty teacher and prefect, table grace was said by senior students.
Then l saw students rushing out to get dishes of food from the kitchen for each table.
As a fresh intake, I sat there confused, staring at what was unfolding before my eyes.
At about the same time the dish of food was brought into the dining hall, a long plastic bag containing nicely-coloured products was also brought in.
Upon sighting this real eye-catching attractive looking white men’s product.
I was happy, thinking that I will now taste a new product, probably a newly-manufactured biscuit or something.
I assumed that it must be a foodstuff and not anything else, because it was brought in at about the same time the dishes of food were distributed.
When I got my share of unusual product, I hesitated to break it open because I saw that no single student was doing anything to that product.
What I had suspected as something to eat was left unattended for the entire meal time.
My assumption that the white men’s strange product was food was proven wrong.
What this typical fresh Gr 7 student sighted for the first time during dinner time was in fact a packet of toilet tissue.

Paul Minga
Sharing typical experience