Saturday, November 17, 2012

Another First World Problem


There are people in this country who have real problems. They have cancer, or some serious debilitating illness. They don't get enough to eat;  live in their cars; some are still without power weeks after the nasty east coast hurricane, so I don't get to seriously bitch about anything; still, there is a tiny thing I find perplexing ...

Costco, in its wisdom, began offering their monstro packages of toilet paper with extra sheets per role. Which, you'd think, is a good thing, right? Except that in Steve's house, the TP rollers are inset into the cabinets or close enough to the walls that you can't use this fat new roll upon these devices because it is too big to fit. Put it on, you can't unroll it; it simply tears off. So you leave it on the back of the toilet until enough has been unspooled until you can stick it on the roller, or you come up with one sheet when you grab it ...

I know, I know, it's like missing the little cutter when pull out a section of dental floss and winding up with two feet of the stuff in hand, boo hoo, but there you go ...

2 comments:

Cliff said...

For every first world problem, some first world entrepreneur has found a first world solution...

http://www.amazon.com/Charmin-Extender-Adaptador-Rolls-WHITE/dp/B0045JAA7U

Steve Perry said...

Now that is clever ...