I’m great at purging stupid apps from my iPhone. At least once a month, I go through a cleaning fit and dump anything I haven’t used or figured out since my last spree and throw a few more onto that trash heap in the great cyber unknown.

So how in the world IDragPaper survived all this time is a miracle. It’s a game where a clock times how long it takes you to unroll a tube of toilet paper with your finger. It wasn’t even mildly entertaining on the first try. The only use I can think of is if you are trying to work a cramp out of your index finger.

And then I had to sit next to my wiggly 6-year-old nephew in church. You know the type – half the time you’re annoyed because you can’t concentrate for all the shuffling, butt rearranging, poking, whispers, dropped crayons -- and the other half you’re jealous because adults can’t get by with that kind of motion.

So Aunt Julie reached for the iPhone, desparately seeking something quiet but entertaining – as in YouTube videos are out, as is Doodle Buddy with its clicks and whistles. And there was IDragPaper staring me right in the face.

The nephew adored it, mainly because he’s a kindergartner and this involves toilet paper. It kept him occupied for an entire 6 minutes, which was well worth the free download to me. (I understand you now have to pay .99 for it, mainly because you can choose TP with patterns. That could be a serious drawback in your decision making -- particularly since moving blue and green checkerboards would set me up for a migraine inside of a second.)