Tee Pee

For the past few weeks, during this whole ordeal with my Mom, we have had no less than ten people living in my house. Three of these people were my mom's mother and sisters, all of whom have their own way of doing things and one thing my grandma taught her kids was, when you replace the toilet paper, make sure the lose end comes around the front not the back. So in every bathroom when one of those three women changed the paper the let the loose end hang out the front.

None of these women keep cats who like to play in the bathroom.

Back when I was five years old we got our first cat. To cats, just like with small children, that dangling paper is a temptation that cannot be ignored. We often went into the bathroom to find the entire roll of paper lying in a heap on the floor. Therefore we learned to put the paper on with the loose end coming through the back. This way the cat can bat the front of the roll as much as he or she wants, nothing will unroll.

The moral of the story is, when you have relatives keeping house for you, suck it up and deal with how they do things until they leave. Then you can slowly bring things back to normal. After all, it's only a roll of paper, it will soon be gone and a new roll added in the "correct" way and life goes on.

But till then, it drives me crazy!