Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 25, 2014

Frankly, I don’t give a rat’s…

I thought that a task like changing the toilet paper is why Rat let Steph stay?

Rat needs a life.

Maybe he sat on Stehpan’s knees….I can picture that. I wish I hadn’t, but I did. What’s going on in this house with all the toilet goings on.

No job is done until the paperwork is completed.

Probably put the roll on backwards, too.

(Cue T.P. roll etiquette discussion)

Stephen probably used all but the last three inches of the roll.

the few Rats {Pets} I’ve known do it anyplace anytime or whatever, no control…

Maybe not changing the toilet roll is why Stephan’s wife kicked him out of the house.

Righto…sorta like being married!

This one is going up on a lot of bathroom mirrors!

Ooo, Rat is a fellow traveler with the families I stay with! Last night I faced a new roll that had been propped on top of the toilet-paper holder. The perp does this so as not to deal with the spring-loaded thingie. I do admit, as suggested by unnormal, to surreptitiously using the new roll and leaving “three inches” of t. p. on the old roll. This doesn’t really work after the new roll is noiceably diminished. BTW, good comments, folks!

I solve this issue by keeping my t.p. on top of the toilet tank.

That’s because you’re the MECHANIC!

Wow, I feel for you, Rat.

LOL xxx

Why doesn’t everybody understand that work sucks!!!

rotfl! There are two men in this household … I don’t think either of them has replaced a roll of tp since 2003.

Having said that, though, one of them replaced the tp holder with a thing with no spring loaded pitfall. I had hoped that this would spread the chore a bit, but … I was wrong.

If only I could get them to store tp where I could reach it … rotfl!

I know, TTM … we could run online courses! No gender discrimination ..! Get your people to call my people, and we’ll get this thing done!

All this time, I thought I was living with people related to me. No, I am living with Rat.

Whenever I use someone else’s bathroom, I reverse the direction of the toilet paper. I don’t know why this drives people so crazy, but it does and it’s always funny when drunk hosts flip out a parties.

You mean Mr. Spock. Dr. Spock refers to Dr. Benjamin Spock, the late author and pediatrician.

I can’t use the TP holder. I have one cat who will disembowel the roll if he can reach it (and he is a tall cat) so it goes up on the shelf over the toilet, just out of his reach.

And I’m disappointed. No one mentioned, “For Whom the Bell Toils”.

Pardon me while I go search for some sympathy for Rat.

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Nope—didn’t find any. Sorry. Better luck tomorrow?

Lol