Just wondering. Do they really include the last paper towel in the total sheet count? It’s hardly usable. I mean, by the time you peel the fucking thing off the cardboard tube, you’re left with about three quarters of a towel. So maybe the package should read “74 3/4 one-ply sheets.” I don’t know.
Of course, you always seem to run into this excuse-for-a-towel at the worst possible moment. Like when your grilled vegetable burrito decides to detonate in the microwave, leaving a buttload of refried-bean shrapnel in its wake. Mmmm delicioso. A mess like that is at least a three-toweler. And you’re about 2 1/4 towels shy. Quicker Picker Upper, my ass. The Last Paper Towel sucks.
I always find the first one is unusable too. The way it is fused to the roll (how does one fuse paper towels?), by the time you get it off, all you have left are shreds of paper towel.
I hear you on the timing issue as well. The bigger the mess and more pressing the need, the more likely that you are down to the last, glued on towel.
They need moms to design the paper towels; I never have that problem with baby wipes. They even come in a pop-up tub. So convenient.
This is an excellent example of what is wrong with America today.
Paper towels are wonderful kitchen tools that come in handy when there is a spill, the need to dry hands or a freshly washed cup, dish, or plate. I personally use thousands upon thousands of paper towels — I must go through a roll and 1/2 each day.
Having said that, I must say that we are BLESSED to have these in our lives. Blessed I tell you, that each time we open a roll, we open up the potential to clean up hundreds of tiny little messsss.
However, even with the hundreds of little miracles that each paper towel represents, we find reason to complain about that one paper towel at the end. It’s a damned shame….
I’m willing to bet that in third world countries, where people wipe their mouths with leaves and dry their spills, hands, and dishes with old t-shirts and animal skins, those last sticky towels would be relished and treated as the gifts they truly are.
Honestly, people. I write an entry about the last paper towel. I use the term “buttload,” in the processs. And not one of you brings up the subject of the last few sheets of toilet paper? I’m very disappointed in you all. Very, very disappointed.
I thought about it, but considered it off topic.
I always check the roll before I sit, so it is not as big as a problem as with the paper towels.
My wife also has me well trained to get more when the roll is getting low.
*unable to get up she calls from the other room*
Can someone please fucking get me another roll…. now????
(and she’s not talking about the paper towels)
Talk and Talkerer, why o why don’t you have your own ‘blog? Or do you? You have cool things to say & it’s a delight to see you but you’re coming dangerously close to usurping me as The Guy Who Writes The Absurdly Long Comments, no offense, big guy (or gal, as the case may be).
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