Is not changing the toilet paper roll lazy or efficient?
I like to think of myself as a highly motivated person. For basically the last year I have been constantly busy doing something: school, work, opening a business, writing, hiding bodies of dead hookers in my backyard. All of that shows that I have some sort of work ethic I guess, that I am not some lazy bastard. However when it comes to changing out the empty roll of toilet paper… well that is just too much work, in fact I just avoid doing it.
It dawned on me this morning that I haven’t changed out an empty roll of toilet paper since I have moved to Boston. My girlfriend and guests have been the ones to replace the empty roll with a new one. I am trying to decide if this is highly efficient or just really lazy?
The efficiency argument
On the one hand I am basically outsourcing the job to someone else at no cost. You know what there probably is a cost. They probably lose some level of respect for me. So on a scale of 1-10, with ten being the highest, they probably lose like .2 respect points for me. Over the next few weeks I gain them back or increase over that amount but lose them if they have to change the roll again.
The lazy argument
No matter how I bend it or paint it… I am just really lazy.
What do you guys think is not changing the roll lazy (like this blog post) or efficient?
Efficient. Why should you waste your energy when someone else can waste theirs?
I agree w/ Gina. Somebody else can do it. I very seldom ever change mine. It’s kinda like making the bed–what’s the point when all your going to do is sleep in it again in 24 or so hours.
TP goes quickly. Why bother changing it when it’s going to have to be changed again? =)
I have had to stop changing the roll in my downstairs bathroom. My one year old has newly discovered the joy of sneaking into the bathroom and unrolling it all over the floor. Now I have to keep it out of her reach. So…I’ll go with efficient for 500, Alex.
Efficient….I don’t have a toilet paper holder. my bathroom is huge..but it lacks the normal necessities. It’s better to let someone else change it though…I’m assuming you bought it…why should u have to change it?
If you at least provide the toilet paper, then I would say efficient. My ex was so lazy he didn’t even purchase it. I was the one picking it up at the store and replacing it.
I think even having a toilet paper holder is lazy. Why not just set it on the floor in front of you? Does it really require that much energy to bend forward? Turning while seated actually increases your risk of muscle strain and disc herniation. Women just like toilet paper holders because it is another crappy thing they can buy at Pier One. Whenever my ex would complain about me not changing the roll I would say I am sorry then go in there and rub her seashell little soaps in my but crack.
It’s neither. We don’t even have a TP holder – ours is in a basket on the floor next to the toilet. As long as it’s not getting wet or manhandled all over the floor, I could care less if it’s hanging on the wall, where it’s just easier for tiny tots to roll it off and play with it. As long as you’ve got TP somewhere in the vicinity of the toilet, who cares? Some people need to find better things to do with their time than worry if you have TP on the wall or not.
i thought the rule was, if you were the last one to use it to change it?
no, not lazy at all. I’ll not change the roll, i know someone else will do it.
the saying goes “shit or get off the pot” it says nothing about changing rolls of TP in between.
Can it be both lazy and efficient? I like it when my lack of motivation allows me to be better at what I do.
I think not ever changing the roll of toilet paper makes you one of my former roommates.
LOL…I dunno what it makes you…But I do know I am the only freakin person that puts tp on the roll at my work!
I would actually love to be able to put toilet paper on the holder (same for paper towels), but one of my cats is possessed, and if I use the TP holder, I just find it totally unraveled and clawed up ten minutes later.
not lazy – thoughtful. i hate when the toilet paper roll faces the wrong way. so thanks for allowing people like me to put it the way i want it.
Someday, your girlfriend is going to leave the empty roll and you’re going to be relegated to doing the “Dingleberry Shuffle” across the room to get a new roll.
Ass clenched, feet shuffling at 2 inches a minute…trying not to drop shit on the floor.
Payback’s a bitch, man. And a man cleaning up his own poo isn’t really a man at all.
I’m making a t-shirt with that saying on it.
its lazy and totally pissses me off. its so easy you can do it while your taking a shit. two fucking seconds.
amen.
Good God Kevin! That is totally lazy and super inefficient. You lose more than .2 points! AND if you don’t have the roll hanging the right way….major no-no as well. Gotta have the paper shooting out from the top not from behind. Folding corners is excessive so no need but the above noted, a must.
And just cuz, toilet seat always stays down.
For me, you would lose more poitns than you would gain back. It just shows that someone is selfish and inconsiderate that they would use something and not replace it. It’s like using a dish and expecting someone else to wash it. Man up and clean up after yourself.
I made the mistake of buying a package of the mega large rolls only to discover they were too big to fit in the ceramic TP holder until 1/2 is used. Annoying, I must say. Living alone, there is no one else to ensure that TP is always available at the throne.
And I too am more concerned that the paper come over the top – that underneath thing is just too annoying and indicative of people lacking the capacity to train their demon spawn and/or their demon cats to leave it alone.
I find it hard to leave the roll holder hanging empty. If i use the last piece, i replace it immediately! I have the toulet roll holder in the loo that will hold about 5 spare rolls and i can do it while still seated. Yeah, that;s the anal me!
I think the last time we changed a roll was thanksgiving when we had people over, otherwise it gets plunked on the back of the toilet or on the sink, both within easy reach of even people with the shortest of arms. efficient!!
Interesting ideas… I wonder how the Hollywood media would portray this?