Now the reply all people are snarking. Um, guys? This is nationwide, you know. It is funny, but I have a terrible feeling this is going to institute some new, weird rule within a day or two. These kinds of things always do. Actually, the nationwide disti lists are already locked down, so I’m surprised this went out at all…Ohhhh, I know what she did. I bet she feels :smack: and :o right now, and will shortly being feeling :(. The email contained semi-private information regarding an employee, so she’s definitely busted. But hey, she was famous for at least 15 minutes! 
Jah ain’t if fun when weird big stuff happens at work, especially when it ain’t your fault? Oh, and just so you understand, stocking up on toilet paper is normal. NORMAL I say. One simply cannot have too much tp.
One can, however, have too little, as I have unfortunately experienced. Always buy five time more than you’ll expect you need is what I say.
I am currently debating whether it would be worth braving the cold to go get some flu medicine. Although I probably won’t take it until I’ve finished this thrice-damned paper - I can’t afford to be drugged up until the need to form coherent thoughts has passed.
I never think to buy toilet paper until it’s too late. Every damn time. I’ll buy one of those 12-roll monstrosity packs, and then completely forget that I’ve used up eleven and three-quarter rolls. This is why there are tissues in the bathroom.
I do, however, always have excess butter. This is something my mother does, too. Every time I go shopping, I buy a pound of butter. Every time, not “when I need it” or “after it’s gone.” I have, at times, had more than five pounds of butter in my fridge, just because I could not stop buying it.
Sounds like when I worked at the big law firm, Jah. The day the “I LOVE YOU” virus hit the place, I came in to discover about a million copies of it in my and my boss’s inboxes. I went in to her and said, “Man, I wonder what clueless moron opened that one and infected the whole firm?” And she replied, “Shhh, it was the managing partner.” Hee! Gotta love it when stuff like that happens. As long as it’s not you it’s happening to, obviously.
Swampy, I’m only looking forward to being away from the computer in terms of being away from work. Sheesh, did you think I was really looking forward to being away from the Dope? Tsk tsk! Of course, I’ll probably only get on at my sister’s place, since she has broadband; my mom only has dialup, and refuses to upgrade, and it drives me nuts watching the internet crawl in super-slow motion. If it crawls at all. So I’ll probably go over to my sister’s place just to read my email. (That also, of course, gives me a good excuse to get away from my mother and her hovering for a little while!)
Welcome to the MMP, HazelNutty. I’ve been trying to think what to do to your name, but haven’t come up with anything definitive yet. Although clearly if you hang out with this crazy bunch, “nutty” must appear somewhere your nickname. It just lets the world know that you fit right in.
Prayers for Grampus!
Back to work. Sigh. I really need to go up and reorganize the attic so I’ll have room to put the stuff I cleared out of the bedroom closet up there. Or make a Goodwill run. Or a post office run. Alas, I feel only like sitting here and nesting. Chirp chirp!
At long last a cool kid who understands the importance of tp! Drae, always buy two twelve packs of tp. Heck, always buy two twelve packs of beer too while you’re at it.
Hmmm… how bout HazNutty or JavaNut?
I am a tiny little woman who cannot carry two twelve-packs at a time. And you know I’m a procrastinator, so when I need the second 12-pack, it will still be in the car. 
I am pleased to report that while we only buy one twelve-pack of TP at a time, the moment that twelve-pack passes the halfway mark, Papa Tigs races to Sam’s for more. He is excellent at keeping large stocks of TP, paper towels, coffee, etc., on hand. He insists that when we order our Community Coffee from Louisiana, for example, we have to buy 20 lbs at a time. Me, I’d probably only get 10. We don’t drink it that fast. But no, more is better. In fact, that’s his prevailing philosophy in life: More Is Better.
Maybe I should cross-stitch that on a sampler for him to hang in his office. It would certainly lead to some, er, interesting questions…
On the bright side, it’d be closer than having to go all the way to the store for more, so there’s that.
Tigs good for PapaTigs!
My quest to get the world to buy enough tp is making some headway.
I’m inspired…Straight after work, it’s off for TP and beer!
HazelNutty or HazNutty have a nice ring. I’ve been considered nutty for quite some time by my friends, so I suppose it’s appropriate.
Draelin, I am small and female as well. This is why I use the Internet to have many heavy things delivered to my doorstep. I can also stay under my blankets and minimize human contact. It’s perfect!
You can never have too much anything as far as I’m concerned. When the opportunity arises, I’ll stock up with the best of 'em. 12-packs of bottled water on sale? I’ll take 8 cases. TP? Paper towels? Econo-size it, please. 2L Canada Dry ginger ale? Put me down for 20. None of it will ever go to waste in my household.
For me it’s an outgrowth of two things:
- Wanting to go shopping for the big, bulky stuff as least often as possible, and,
- Having been poor in the past and not being able to afford the added expense of the larger packages in order to save money, perverse as that sounds.
Oh, and Welcome, HazelNutCoffee! For a nickname … let’s see. Initials are H.N.C. I suggest that, based on this, we call you Hank.
I’m not doing this right, am I?
I used to have a place with a storage cabin as large as the cabin I lived in. I had lots and lots of places to store stuff there, including massive amounts of TP. Now I live in a tiny one bedroom that doesn’t allow me to be quite such a packrat. I do try to keep TP stocked, but I tend to think, oh, I bought a 12 pack, no need to restock. But swampy, you know, there’s TP and then there’s the generic industrial grade sandpaper that falls apart on contact with water. That was the stuff my mother stocked up on.
Woo hoo! I just got my Amazon gift certificates. I’m going shopping! I wonder if you can use Amazon Prime for TP?
All my hard work is finally payin’ off. SNIFF Makes me wanna polka.
OK, sounds like we have a winner with HazNutty.
Oh and burly men bringing things to my door is always a good thing.
A coworker is going to take care of the Brat Cats ™ while we’re away. I don’t know her terribly well; what is a good generic gift card that I could get her to say thanks?
Please, don’t get him started on understocking on toilet paper. Swampy gan rant for days about it.
taxi I’d find out what she likes to eat, and get her a restaurant gift card.
Someone asked in last week’s MMP, over the weekend, if we’re doing the work ourselves (gt, maybe?) We are not - it just looks that way with the glacier-like progress that’s being made on that portion of the project. However, we did remove and repaint the shutters ourselves. And the front door. GF agonized for three weeks over the color of the front door, and ended up with a wine-color red. But, with the screen door in place, you can’t see the door from the street.
You have to buy beer every day and twice on Sunday?
Well, of course not! I buy several cases at a time. Heck, it ain’t like it’s gonna sit there and go bad.
Sean if people would just stock up on tp like they’re supposed to, I wouldn’t get up on my soap box so often. It is vitally important to have lots of tp in stock. There is just no excuse whatsoever to run out of toilet paper. None! None I say!
taxi since she’s taking care of cats, I suggest a gift card to the liquor store. She can buy the alcohol for herself or the cats, whichever makes life easier for her.
I would just like to state for the record that for a while I had over 50 rolls of TP. For the 2 of us. At the time I thought, “**swampy ** would be proud.” I think we’re down to about 24 now so we may have to stock up again soon.
I don’t know if I’ll do a wedding/honeymoon MMP. I think someone’s already spoken for the 18th which is when I’ll be getting back.