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The Toilet Paper Roll

I heard it over and over again before I got married. In movies and on TV; from parents, friends, and friend’s parents; even strangers would tell me that once you got married you’d notice quirky little things about your spouse. Well, I noticed one thing within a few weeks of marrying Joy — toilet paper rolls.

At first, I thought that she just forgot to remove the old toilet paper and put on a new one. After a while I felt like maybe this was ‘my job.’ I thought about how with my parents it was always my dad’s job to put the food away after a meal. My mom would almost always cook, and my dad would put lids, plastic wrap, etc on the different serving pieces and then find a place for them in the refridgerator. (There are more funny things about this story — like my dad still not knowing where anything is in the refridgerator despite the fact that all leftovers in there had been put there by him.) Maybe changing the old toilet paper roll out for a new one was, in Joy’s mind, a guy job.

This weekend I am up in Gainesville again spending time with Joy as she moves in for one last semester at UF. One of the first things I noticed when I arrived at her apartment was… not one, but TWO used toilet paper rolls!! One was on the TP roll holder and the other was above it on the bathroom countertop! That’s where she puts them when she needs to get another one.

Wow, I was impressed. This has gone too far. It’s not that hard to just take the old tube thingie off the holder and put a new roll of TP in its place. Going through a whole roll without doing this is just… something else, man.

So, I talked to Joy about this. At first she wasn’t sure what I was talking about. Then a day or so later she comes to me and tells me that I am right. She doesn’t change the TP roll all the time.

She hoped that I didn’t mind changing it.

I don’t really… it’s just another one of those funny and cute things that I may come to hate in a decade or so.

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