Now if you know me at all, you know that I love Trading Spaces. So for Christmas, Bill (my father-in-law), got me a couple of Trading Spaces book. One of those is "Paige by Paige." Paige Davis is the Trading Spaces host, and the book is a diary of the show and her life throughout season three. I started reading it last night and have subsequently finished it. But I found one entry rather interesting and have decided to share it with you, faithful reader:
February 28th, 2003
3:24pm
Since the beginning of the season I've been taking an unofficial private count of how many people keep thier toilet paper roll with the flap over and how many keep it under. I am surprised and dismayed to announce most people keep the flap under. Don't people realize this is just wrong? Hotels hang the roll with the flap over; they even fold the flap to a little point. It's the right way. I've been secretly turning the toilet paper rolls over if they are the other way. It's a compulsion.
Hilarious!
I suppose that's all for now. I have had yesterday and today off, which has been wonderful. Unfortunately, I have to be on-site at the bank at some ungodly hour . . . I should probably be going to bed about now . . . Good night?
By the way, I keep the roll with the flap over. Yourself?
3 comments:
For much of my life I let the tail hang from underneath. Then one day I put in place a roll of toilet paper that was printed but only on one side. I realized that the way I had been doing it meant that the unprinted side was hanging down. Changing it so that the flap comes off the top meant that the printed outside was visible. I'm not above admitting that had been wrong. Since that day, I have conscientously installed rolls with the flap coming off the front top. You might even say I traded places. I will not fall out of fellowship or refuse to work with anyone who disagrees, but at this stage of my journey I'm confident that it's TP - top proper.
FOLLOW-UP: So now I'm noticing toilet paper like never before. Thanks EA. Checked into a hotel just a few days after my comments. It just happened to have double tp holders. One flap came over the top and one came from the back. I intentionally pulled enough out to make it obvious that they were put on in different ways, just to see if anyone would change one or the other. They remained diverse throughout my four-day stay there. Perhaps an effort to be politically correct and please people on both sides of the (t)issue. Probably nobody cared like we now do. The ends weren't even folded neatly. At least the wash clothes and handtowels were folded into nice designs (though not nearly as nice as in Cancun!). Ray, Kathy and I even discussed this meaningful subject again at lunch today - right after the implications of Disney buying Pixar.
Over of course! I figure the people who do it the other way just carelessly throw it up there and however it lands it stays. I can't imagine CHOOSING the under way. Yeah, we're all SICK SICK SICK...some people don't even HAVE toilet paper! :)
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