I participated in the toilet paper poll on the boards....

have to tell you it was the easiest election I have voted in - in a long time. Why/ so glad you asked that question. ..... because toilet paper is a MAJOR part of my life.

Now we all know what a necessity tp is. Comes in handy every day of your life.

I don't think think there is a woman alive who has never stepped into a stall and didn't notice that the tp dispenser is empty. I am a pro at discretely looking under the sides of the stall to see which feet I am going to ask to please pass me a couple of sheets. Here's a hint... pick the feet with the cutest shoes ( a pair that you would buy) because then you are of like mind and if you would be generous with the tp sheets... chances are the shoes in the next stall will be generous as well. Nothing worse than begging for tp and not getting enough to do the job and having to ask again. Not really a big deal - as a Mother I have become an expert in humiliation. You need to just pray that the cute pair of shoes beside you is a fan of personal hygeine and washes her hands.. You know you were thinking that - I just blog what I think. Universally sad commentary on my thought process.

I live with a big fan of toilet paper. Young son thinks tp is the greatest thing EVER !! Which is the reason we never have any toilet paper in any bathroom. I don't lock the bathroom door anymore because I will no doubt need to open the door and yell for any male member of the household to find me a slice of tp ( and a slice is normally what I get). I am thinking of just having a roll attached to the dog's collar ( like those St. Bernard rescue dogs) but I think the tp will weigh more than Shea does and she will end up like the dog in " How the Grinch stole Christmas" when he put the antler on the dog's head and she ended up with her tail in the air. Remember?

As of now all the tp is stored in the garage on a shelf where young son has not yet discovered it. It really is just a matter of time and I can see him discovering the ladder and getting into tp heaven.

The topper of my tp problem came last night. I hit a new "high" in creative tp begging.

Young son had gone to Walgreens with husband... so I was able to be alone in the bathroom. This in itself is a major miracle. Alone to pee... what a concept !! So giddy I was to be alone that I failed to check if a roll of tp was nearby - right of course not. Now I had the cordless phone in the bathroom. This is another whole bathroom issue because the phone will always ring when I am on the potty and it will no doubt be my mother asking what I'm doing. So I tell her.

In this case of having the phone with me was nothing but divine intervention. Older son was in the "man cave" downstairs. The room formerly known as the "family room". He was running down the battery in husband' s cell phone. So I called downstairs and asked him to run me up a roll of tp. gives a new name to the word "emergency". It was and I was in need. Older son came to the rescue with a brand new roll.

This was last night and this morning - you guessed it - gone. Young son found it and loaded the toilet witht he paper and in a tp induced frenzy - pee'd on it. Mission accomplished landed right on the bullseye.

Sigh.

I should just tell husband to invest our life savings ( if we had one) into tp stock. Because there is no doubt that in the coming years we will be keeping the tp company in business. Until such a time I will continue to buy the soft kind of tp - because someday I will be waiting a long time for someone to rescue me. and when they do - the tp better be baby soft.

Where is a St. Bernard when you need one?

Thanks for reading. Butterflyshine - this one is for you. What kind of poll can we have now?

Big Hugs -

Barb