From The Storyteller
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Oct. 29, 2018, Paper Towels
Just wondering how they get 200 individual paper plates stacked together so tight that it takes my finger nail to pry them apart. How do they make a roll of toilet paper with 1000 individual sheets? The mechanics of filling bottles with stuff is easy to understand. My tour of the SAS shoe factory was great as I witnessed their well thought-out, step by step process that generates literally hundreds of pairs of shoes a day. But a pair of shoes, or a bottle of canola oil, is not the same as 1000 individual sheets on a roll. This particular “how do they do it” wondering started in Sam’s Club on a Saturday afternoon. I am watching a father with his young family pick up a gigantic package of paper towels. There are 150 individual paper towels to a roll, 15 rolls to a package, 2250 individual towels to a pack, and each towel is perforated at the edge for easy tearing. How paper towels, toilet paper, and paper plates are made are but a few of the questions to which I may never learn the answers. If you know the answers, great! It is okay not to tell me, and yes I do know about google. It’s just I’ve come to a place where spending “head-time” finding answers to my “wonderings” is not as important as it once was. Example: The father buying those paper towels was shopping with his family. They were together, talking and laughing. I call that “heart-time”, and time well spent. “Head-time” and “heart-time” are both necessary. How necessary is a personal choice. For me, if it means losing valuable “heart-time”, I’m okay with never knowing who decided 60 seconds makes a minute, or how paper towels are made. Moral: Choosing between “head-time” and “heart-time” can be tough. Choose wisely. |