My Toilet Paper Rant/A Tribute to Mary Greene
02/21/08 10:59 AM Filed in: Indiscriminate
I have a strange liking
of cleaning things dirty, for instance, bathrooms.
I'm not sure how this came about; perhaps it was the
wonderful upbringing I had by my two amazing parents
who instilled cleanliness into me (thanks Mom and
Dad)! Whatever it was, I'm stuck with it. I enjoy
cleaning sinks, toilets, and I especially love
vacuuming. Too bad my roommate never lets me vacuum
our room. But I digress ...
Toilet paper, as I once learned, is meant to be installed one way and one way only. See, I work at a wonderful camp over the Summers as the Camp Aid. Basically, I do all the dirty work you don't want to ... but I do :P. Cleaning the bathhouse was one of my many jobs, so, of course, toilet paper rolls needed to be replaced. Frequently. My Camp Aid buddies and I used to take statistics of the ratio of rolls we replaced in the boys bathrooms versus the girls bathrooms, but we won't go there. Although, in case you were interested and are otherwise uneducated, there were always significantly more replaced in the girls bathrooms.
Mary, our fantastic cook for the camp and otherwise handywoman, once taught me this specific way to replace toilet paper rolls. You see, when you get boxes of toilet paper in bulk, they all come wrapped in tissue paper. I never realized it until Mary pointed it out, but the tissue paper actually has an arrow on it, instructing you which way to put the toilet paper into the dispenser. And the arrow isn't just there for good looks! Oh, no. If you put the toilet paper into the dispense the proper way, the roll will unwind closest to you, and you can therefore tear towards yourself, instead of having to lean forward and attempt to tear of the roll away from yourself, which I find always ends awkwardly.
This week, the toilet paper roll was almost empty from the dispenser here in my dorm. Finally, a MASSIVE (and it was HUGE) roll showed up on the back of the toilet. The dispenser still had some left, so the maintenance guys must have just left it there in anticipation, eagerly awaiting to change our roll. The rolls of toilet paper here are huge, which is unfortunate, because when they've just been replaced, the rolls are so big that it's impossible to pull and get some toilet paper out without prematurely ripping it because the roll is too heavy to turn in the dispense ... but that's another whole post.
Anyway, the other day, the dispenser in my bathroom finally became empty, and the maintenance crew replaced the roll. I didn't realize until I went in to do my business that they replaced it backwards! That's right. They made me have to tear forward. And you can't open the dispenser to turn it around, so until this huge roll is finished, I will be stuck tearing forward.
I love the maintenance crew here, and they do a fantastic job, don't get me wrong! That just reminded me of camp, which made me happy, and Mary, who is amazing and knows everything. So perhaps this post is more a tribute to Mary, who knows everything about cooking, tractors, cars, farming, bugs, getting calk off your hands when you get them stuck together, nursing a wound after you accidently sliced your hand open multiple times on shattered porcelain from a toilet (infection?). Oh Mary Greene, how we love you :)!
Toilet paper, as I once learned, is meant to be installed one way and one way only. See, I work at a wonderful camp over the Summers as the Camp Aid. Basically, I do all the dirty work you don't want to ... but I do :P. Cleaning the bathhouse was one of my many jobs, so, of course, toilet paper rolls needed to be replaced. Frequently. My Camp Aid buddies and I used to take statistics of the ratio of rolls we replaced in the boys bathrooms versus the girls bathrooms, but we won't go there. Although, in case you were interested and are otherwise uneducated, there were always significantly more replaced in the girls bathrooms.
Mary, our fantastic cook for the camp and otherwise handywoman, once taught me this specific way to replace toilet paper rolls. You see, when you get boxes of toilet paper in bulk, they all come wrapped in tissue paper. I never realized it until Mary pointed it out, but the tissue paper actually has an arrow on it, instructing you which way to put the toilet paper into the dispenser. And the arrow isn't just there for good looks! Oh, no. If you put the toilet paper into the dispense the proper way, the roll will unwind closest to you, and you can therefore tear towards yourself, instead of having to lean forward and attempt to tear of the roll away from yourself, which I find always ends awkwardly.
This week, the toilet paper roll was almost empty from the dispenser here in my dorm. Finally, a MASSIVE (and it was HUGE) roll showed up on the back of the toilet. The dispenser still had some left, so the maintenance guys must have just left it there in anticipation, eagerly awaiting to change our roll. The rolls of toilet paper here are huge, which is unfortunate, because when they've just been replaced, the rolls are so big that it's impossible to pull and get some toilet paper out without prematurely ripping it because the roll is too heavy to turn in the dispense ... but that's another whole post.
Anyway, the other day, the dispenser in my bathroom finally became empty, and the maintenance crew replaced the roll. I didn't realize until I went in to do my business that they replaced it backwards! That's right. They made me have to tear forward. And you can't open the dispenser to turn it around, so until this huge roll is finished, I will be stuck tearing forward.
I love the maintenance crew here, and they do a fantastic job, don't get me wrong! That just reminded me of camp, which made me happy, and Mary, who is amazing and knows everything. So perhaps this post is more a tribute to Mary, who knows everything about cooking, tractors, cars, farming, bugs, getting calk off your hands when you get them stuck together, nursing a wound after you accidently sliced your hand open multiple times on shattered porcelain from a toilet (infection?). Oh Mary Greene, how we love you :)!