How a teenager interprets a request to replace the toilet paper roll

To the parents of a teenager, this is known as "progress."  It is impossible not to feel a tiny bit encouraged.

For added enjoyment, try explaining to a teenager that there is a long-running debate over how to hang toilet paper. They won't believe you at first. Then, they will actually take a position.

You will roll on the floor laughing.

 

from the teenager archives:

A Critique of Household Rules by its Teenage Members

Occupy the Couch: A Top Ten Complaint List

Comments

[Gigi]

I am of the opinion that people (i.e. teens and husbands) who don't replace the paper onto the dispenser properly don't get a vote as to how the paper should hang....unless their position happens to agree with mine. Over.

[Suburban Kamikaze]

In a perfect world, I would have to agree with you. Under is no way to live.

In our house, however, we are still working to resolve the debate over wet towels (flung to the floor overhand or underhand?), empty milk cartons (left on the counter or put back into the refrigerator?) and uneaten food. (Covered with water and left to "soak" in the sink or abandoned on plates left on bookshelves?)

The little things make all the difference.

SK