Leonard Spud
Mr Spud was short and fat, just like his son. Hairier in lots of places too, apart from his head – which was bald and shiny…
From the age of sixteen, Mr Spud worked in a vast loo-roll factory on the outskirts of town. Mr Spud’s job at the factory was sooooo boring. He had to roll the paper around the cardboard inner tube.
Roll after roll.
Day after day.
Year after year.
Decade after decade.
This he did, over and over again, until nearly all his hope had gone. He would stand all day by the conveyer belt with hundreds of other bored workers, repeating the same mind-numbing task…
The only good thing about working in a factory was that Mr Spud had lots of time to daydream. One day he had a daydream that was to revolutionise bottom wiping forever.
Why not invent a loo roll that is moist on one side and dry on the other? he thought, as he rolled paper around his thousandth roll of the day…
When Mr Spud finally launched ‘Bumfresh’, it was an instant phenomenon.
