Rules of the Roll

July 7, 2010

My wife and I had a blow up, knock down, drag out fight the other day, during which the Nordic Warrior Queen brought up every failing and shortcoming of the male half of the species, which I had just recently exemplified with my rude behavior. Why did she do this, you ask? Well, it wasn’t my neglect of the garbage can, or my poor choice of TV program, nor did I kick the dog or yell at one of the kids or drink too much beer. It was something much worse.

I put the toilet paper roll on backwards.

Are you married to one of these? Yikes! You’d think I’d lit fire to the neighbor’s cat and videotaped him running around the yard. Sorry to bring you into it, but I’m asking the question to the whole world now, or at least to the four or five of you who read me: who really gives a shit which direction the paper comes off the roll, as long as it does come off the roll? Please comment, so we can settle this once and for all.

We can talk about the toilet lid some other time.

5 Comments for this entry

  • lois says:

    Seems to me I had a problem like that once. Doesn’t
    sound like enough to create hard fellings but it does
    sometimes.

  • Jacob says:

    Upside down or rightside up, they’re all the same to me…

  • Jamie says:

    There’s physics behind this one, dad…. If u roll UNDER, it creates too much force on the roll and usually ends up in an unraveled mess. If you roll OVER, however, there will be just enough force applied to the top of the roll to counteract the pulling force that the roll should be able to stop when you want it to. Therefore, roll over, not under…. Mom had a valid reason to bitch. 🙂
    Love,
    Your perfect daughter

  • Claudia Burris says:

    Really, Mister Ass, can’t you get ANYTHING right? The PROPER way to dispense toilet paper is over the top of the roll!

  • Dad says:

    And how does that roll holder possibly work?

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