No, I’m not going to ask if the paper should hang from the front or the back. There is only one correct answer to that, and I don’t care what you think.
At my office, the bathroom stall has 2 TP holders mounted to the wall. Every night, the cleaning crew replaces the smaller of the 2 rolls with a new one, and sets the small roll on top. That way, first thing in the morning, there is one full roll and 2 partials. The placement of the full roll varies. It could be the closest or the farthest of the mounted rolls.
So…
If it was you, which would you use first? The partial unattached roll? The smallest roll of the 3? The closest roll?
In the grand scheme of things, it really doesn’t make a difference. It doesn’t keep me up at night. But I’m always a little bewildered to see that one of the 2 mounted rolls will be used up, while that poor little unattached roll is still sitting there. Why yes, it IS a slow afternoon here. Why do you ask?
When the rolls get empty or low in my office’s stall of choice, I opt to change them from the adjacent supply closet so that the bitter end gets to dangle the right way.
Would that it was only a single unmounted roll. Our crew seems to have a minimum acceptable size for the rolls in the dispenser, at which point a full roll is installed, and the partial joins the parade of partials on top of the dispenser unit. One day, I counted 8 (EIGHT!!!) partial rolls stacked like bottles in a carnival game. Because of the height of the dispenser unit, the partials are difficult to reach from a seated posture, so they pretty much accumulate.
Criminy, why won’t someone just steal them?? I expect more than one have fallen, especially when the excess reaches 2 tiers.
I do like the idea of TPing, although most of our cubes are doubles, making the whole process time-consuming and less likely to succeed, since having 2 folks gone long enough at once is an unlikely scenario.
I use the smallest free roll first, most of the time. I do consider that it might have hit the ground, so the first revolution’s worth of paper gets folded/wadded (there’s another thread for ya!) into the middle of the tp bundle; it never actually touches my skin, but it’s there for absorbency’s sake.
I’d use the free roll first. But that’s because we have terribly cheap TP here at my office, and when they put the rolls on the spindles sometimes they get mushed and won’t spin and so it’s impossible to get the mounted roll to release any damn TP and it just rips into shreds and really pisses me off (heh - pisses me off) so in an effort to avoid all the hassle, I use the one I don’t have to fight with.
We use something that is quite common in Thailand: a toilet-paper holder. You pop the cardboard cylinder out, place the roll into the holder, and Voila! You pull the paper out through a hole in the top. It feeds from the center of the roll. NO over or under.
Toilet paper in such holders are also often placed on tables in the cheaper restaurants for use as napkins. THAT took some getting used to when I first moved here.
EDIT: Okay, full disclosure. The toilet-paper holder is in the bathroom off the master bedroom, which is the one I use. The other bathroom actually does have a Western-style toilet-paper hanger. We run the paper over.
Have you considered working it back in? With just leftover bits, you would probably have to alternate ends, but that’s what pitching and catching is all about, eh?
The unattached roll, of course! That way, my co-workers don’t hear the tell-tale rattle of the dispenser as I go through the preliminary back wipe, the damp back wipe, the dry back wipe, the front wipe, and the finishing wipe.
Unattached roll, and the smallest one at that. Even when there are two attached rolls, I always use the smallest one. I want to help using up the leftovers.
And, considering where it goes, I’m not too worried about it possibly falling down. Most of the stalls I use at work have no space to put unattached rolls anyway - on the handicapped ones do.
I am in charge of the cleaning crew and simply tell them not to put the small roll on top, but to “throw them away”. They are happy to take them home as legitimate salvage, as it is less on their conscience than if they have to steal full rolls.
