Why Is This MY Job???
By MARILYN
@Marilynda1225 (83063)
United States
May 20, 2016 9:36am CST
I went into the bathroom this morning and there is a totally empty toilet paper roll hanging on the roller. Next to the toilet sits a newly opened roll on the sink.
Now I ask...how hard is it to just replace the old one with a new one? Obviously it's a big strenuous task and I'm the strongest in the household OR everyone was asleep in school that day when they taught how to change the toilet paper OR everyone else is just plain LAZY.
Whatever the correct answer it seems as if it's my job to change the roll.
I won't even go into the correct way to replace it (up or down) as I probably wouldn't care as long as it was done.
I'm sitting here just shaking my head
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25 responses
@transcendent (709)
• Xian, China
20 May 16
If everyone thinks as you do, then the roll would never been replaced, right?
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@Marilynda1225 (83063)
• United States
20 May 16
@transcendent exactly!! the roll would never be replaced here and would find other places rather than it's designated space
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@Chungshop (2355)
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21 May 16
@transcendent Life is short we don't know when to go. Do what you can, take it easy, so every body is happy around you. Not too much murmur lo
@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
20 May 16
Yeah, I go through the same exact thing in my house as well. I think it is the lazy problem...
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@Marilynda1225 (83063)
• United States
20 May 16
I'm sure it's laziness here too and everyone figures the next person will do it
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@Juliaacv (51458)
• Canada
21 May 16
Now that we are empty nesters, I call the one bathroom, mine, and I never use the other one. Which leaves the responsibility up to my husband to fill the roller, I keep the supply stacked up under the vanity and he can replace a roll as he uses one.
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@Marilynda1225 (83063)
• United States
21 May 16
I have 2 & 1/2 baths so I have no problem with the one in my room, the main one is theirs and I don't care if they put the TP on the roller or not since I don't go in there but the downstairs one which everyone uses is the one where no one ever replaces it.
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
21 May 16
This is a perfect solution. Very smart move!
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@Marilynda1225 (83063)
• United States
21 May 16
@TheHorse 15 squares is quite extreme so I don't blame you for having a no pooping rule 
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@Marilynda1225 (83063)
• United States
21 May 16
It's a task that no one enjoys yet a necessary one. It only takes a second to change it which is why I'm always perplexed as to why it sits on the sink
@transcendent (709)
• Xian, China
20 May 16
The main reason for this, I deem, is that people has a propensity for not caring the public properties.
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@Marilynda1225 (83063)
• United States
20 May 16
seems as if everyone just thinks the next person will do it
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@GardenGerty (160883)
• United States
21 May 16
Well, that is one chore hubby will do and he is the only one here besides me.
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@Tampa_girl7 (50591)
• United States
21 May 16
9 times out of 10 it is my job too
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@Marilynda1225 (83063)
• United States
21 May 16
It's so easy but yet no one wants to do it
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
21 May 16
You could pull a sneaky on the rest of the household members by hiding the roll of TP to only you know where it is and can reach for it. That way when they are hollering from the bathroom, "Where is the TP?" You can say, "Well, gee, I don't know; I guess somebody forgot to put a new roll on the SPINDLE." Let them sit there awhile and eventually they will 'all' get the idea @Marilynda1225 .
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@Marilynda1225 (83063)
• United States
20 May 16
I knew I wasn't alone when it came to this job
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@annaroselock (805)
• United Kingdom
20 May 16
If only they could automatically change themselves 
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@Marilynda1225 (83063)
• United States
20 May 16
now that's an invention that would make zillions of dollars 
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@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
23 May 16
This is not the first time I encounter the super woman that changes the roll. I used to be one. Now I live alone, so I must be IT.
Many times, in the good old days, I dreamed of just letting the roller empty and bring my own piece of paper if I needed it. I wondered how long the situation would last.
I never did it: it seems that it is part of my compulsive nature.
@happytobehereagain (390)
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21 May 16
There are just individual that are plain lazy. I couldnt think of any more reason. 
@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
21 May 16
This is never a problem when one lives along. When living with someone, these things become a hassle. One person expects the other to do all the heavy lifting.
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@tushky7 (164)
• Mumbai, India
21 May 16
@Marilynda1225 Such things happen usually and we are just unable to even think. I faced the same situation in washroom when the toilet was not clean and there was only one for use. So was that my job to clean it and use it, 
It was horrible experience of my life!
It was horrible experience of my life!