Why "Over is Right, Under is Wrong."
Ethical question of the day: if you are visiting someone else's house, and you replace an empty toilet paper roll, should you replace it the "right" way, even if your host previously had it on the "wrong" way? Discuss.
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Yes, and this is my constant mantra when instructing folks when loading rolls of paper in the HP plotters...and they still manage to load it wrong.
Hey, I think if you manage to reload the TP dispenser, it's all good. I can adjust the next time I'm in.
BD, the juxtaposition of loading paper in plotters with toilet paper is ... disturbing on several levels.
And, yes, Dust -- reloading the TP is probably the highest overriding ethical imperative, to which direction is just icing on the cake.
Hey, I did that on my first visit to the Hill household, back in '78. ;)
I remember asking if everybody but you put the roll on the wrong way, and you said that you thought they did it on purpose, just to annoy you... except for your brother, who never put a new roll on.
My roommate usually leaves the new roll on the counter, confident that I will be unable to simply leave it there. Actually, it's just as well. On the few occasions on which she's replaced it, she's gotten it wrong as often as right.
Years ago I read an article that said they found that doing it "the wrong way" (as indicated in the illustration) actually made it faster to rip off the toilet paper, and thus saved time in the bathroom. It indicated quite seriously that businesses should all load the TP in that fashion to cut down on "costly employee toilet time."
For the record, I load it the "right way" (again, according to the illustration) in other peoples' houses, and deliberately the "wrong way" in my own. For ease of use, you see.
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