As it turns out, Bossy has a friend with very strict guidelines in the bathroom, and that friend recently accused Bossy of doing it all wrong:
It seems there are two distinct ways to load the toilet paper roll on its holder. According to Bossy’s friend, one can load the roll so that the toilet paper dangles conveniently from the front:
Or one can load the toilet paper so that spit fire piss balls mother christmas:
Frankly Bossy finds it ridiculous to engage in such a trivial matter! Bossy finds engaging in this matter nearly as ridiculous as poking and grabbing at the toilet paper that’s supposed to be hanging in the front except it never seems to be there:
Bossy can sum up her attitude toward toilet paper in this way: It doesn’t matter! Unless you’re silly enough to front load.
Which is what today’s Ten-Word Challenge is all about. In exactly ten words, can you tell Bossy which toilet paper method you prefer, or about any other pet peeves around the household?
And be sure to check back later today for the best toilet paper advice on the web.
Method? I put the roll ON. They do not. Meh.
Wait, which one is Front and which is Back? Confused…
…Also must mention: dirty clothes not put in hamper = INSANITY!
The man front loads. That’s why he’s allowed to stay.
Dangling in front, it’s the only way. Paper towels too!
Front. I will kill you while you sleep if not.
A long source of debate amongst my uncles and my grandfather …..all engineers…..which only means they spent way too much time in this form of library. The answer according to miss manners guide was: plain paper back, pattern paper (do they still make pattern ass tissue? ) front.
Front is best, but I appreciate replacing empties the most.
Only makes gosh almighty sense to Front Load. Backload? Wrong.
Make sure your toilet paper is not one-ply.
You’re Welcome.
Front! Can’t find it at night if back loaded.
Front. Will _fix_ yours if I’m visiting and it’s backloaded.
KID! YOUR BUTT IS TINY! STOP USING SO MUCH PAPER!
Grew up backloading. Husband frontloads. Changed my ways for harmony.
For God’s sake! Stack the dishes ***NEXT*** to the sink!
I’m with Julie… if it’s not front-loaded I have to forcibly restrain myself from fixing it. Now, back when I had a cat and a baby, we back-loaded to prevent the “slap the roll til it’s empty in a pile on the floor” fun-time activity popular in those demographics.
Paper sticks to itself no matter what way it’s loaded.
Full frontal. All the way.
If it doesn’t front load, it’s just all messed up.
–>Toilet paper should Always roll over the top. The END.
(ha!)
backloading is backwards…Front loading always with a little hanging always. Dr. Oz says it is more sanitary to front load…shrug.
Backload. Please wait until roll is almost empty to reload.
front load, seat down (3 males), candles lit when needed
Front! Front! Front! Front!
full frontal for freedom from failure to find at night!!
For kids & pets: back. For my own sanity: front.
All my family’s thumbs are broken, hence empty rolls everywhere.
Like Julie, I also will change other households to front!
I like it in the front. Up and Over. It’s the only way. Call me Crazy.
what?????inthefrontinthefrontinthefront!!!!
Only heathens pull the t.p. from the back. Jeez.
Animal companions prevent t.p. from being loaded at all.
Definitely a front loader. Always.
If you back-load the TP, we can’t be friends.
Seriously, this discussion always confused me. I was like…”what is wrong with me? I don’t care which way the tp is on the roll and everyone else does.” I’m obviously missing the tp gene because there are people who feel very certain that their tp loading way is the best. I’m just glad when it’s there and so happy to see someone else who feel’s the same. 🙂
Only in the front please!
Borrow items…put back please!
Jesus, we have very few problems.
Front load, end of story
Just happy when someone else puts it on.
Could a “backloader” please explain the logic to me? Please?
Studies show you use less toilet paper when front loaded.
Front load, But please just put the new one on!
Toilet lid closed PLEASE or dogs will drink that. GAH!
(If I were you I would dock my score for use of the made up word/expression of exasperation to complete the word count.)
am i weird? i so don’t care and have never thought about it.
Husband and wife. Two TP holders. One front. One back.
Too anal for me. No longer friends with this couple.
Don’t make me search in the dark. Front load please.
Studies show majority front load. I call them sheep.
FRONT, and that’s all I have to say about that.
Backload Buttwipe and Be Ass Sured of a tidy tear.
Nowadays it’s so important to put up a good front.
Over the top and down the front; please don’t grunt.
Front, with an origami triangle for the next guy.
Front. Have a spare ready if there’s only one square.
Front, so it doesn’t touch the wall. Ewww.
Front, so YOU don’t touch the wall. Double EW!
The people who WASTE paper, And water. Never noticed TP roll.
Front, front, front, front, front…….
If it’s wrong uuugggghhhhhh
I very quietly turn it around
Never say a word
And fold the nice triangle as
my mark
Dear gah we need other hobby! Front – I’m with SquarePeg.
53, 54, 56 – WHAT is wrong with your walls? Front is better UNLESS you have a cat. Cats can unroll a front roll in nanoseconds and proudly leave it all on the floor. And THAT really deserves a EWWWW!
Someone other than me, just put the damn paper ON!
The correct answer:
“WHO GEEVES A SHEET?!” It’s Toilet Paper!
Back load. Olivia the Rebel always goes against popular opinion.
bored doing same way every time. tp hanging that is.
Never mattered- until ogre husband had fit- ALWAYS hang front
EH!
Fer chrissake, FRONT LOAD. You under roll the terlet paper? Jaysus Christ, it’s like I don’t even know you.
Clearly, a number
of Bossy’s posse are obsessive compulsive 🙂
front, over the top. and I change it at work.
“Back loading” sounds ill begotten and wrong because it is.
Boy I’m embarrassed. I just leave it on the windowsill.
Only a genius would know you that you must front load!
I am shocked your paper isn’t quilted. I mean REALLY?
Finally! I’m in with the cool kids! Front all the way!!!
It dangles at the front.
I’m just damn happy when someone replaces the empty roll!!!!
Crank your crapwrap from behind; you’re guaranteed a Happy Ending.
I hate a moldy, stinky towel against fresh clean skin.
No wet towels on floor; pillowcase openings must face out!
I just put the new batch on the bathroom floor and we take it out of there and stack it on top of the package-we are truly lazy.
Front, please. Next rule: lid and seat down, never up.
Never thought about it. Had to go look, one front, one back, one totally empty….
Still is
over – short arms don’t reach if it’s behind.
in our house, type a blood back, type b front.
Women with “don’t use” towels aren’t bl*wing their husbands enough.
I’m with #78… simplify!
backload…don’t really want to see the dangling participle.
Front load ALWAYS!!!!
We do the front load thing, but what really set me back on my heels was that this debate has been raging since OMG when I was in my 20s…some 40 years ago give or take. It was in Ann Landers’ column or Dear Abby and for real this topic has been going on since the sixties.
Front loading…cleaner, easier to grab, hipper, the tidier way.
If you like the toilet paper debate (or don’t) I’ve got a great image that’ll drive you nuts!
Back load for your backside. Can anyone else reload ever?
I have short arms so front load is way easier.
Front load! Not above switching it at other people’s homes.
We prefer front, but back load means toddler can’t unravel.
Front load, please! Men don’t “go” in darkness – explains backloading.
front load ALWAYS. no fumbling in the dark. easy to grab.
I’m lucky if it is done… but I don’t give a SHEET!!!
I’ve been an impartial observer of this argument for over 70 years. My primary observation is this: Only front-loaders are compulsive about “correctness”; I mean,who really should care about such silliness?
The magnificent actress and early independent women’s lib activist,Evelyn Keyes, said that she divorced the brilliant musician,Artie Shaw(who also had married Ava Gardner and other “starlets”) because he would go ballistic if paper was not front-loaded!
Sorry Bossarama, there’s only one way to load the roll!
Once upon a time. Printed top sheet and solid under.
Just white now. No dyes, no guidelines. My task, choice.
Who the fuck cares? Just want paper when I go!
Fuck the toilet paper. Go with the flushable baby wipes. It cleans post-partum hemorrhoids right up. Especially reassuring for us anal retentive types. But if you’re a single mom do not seriously date a man who uses baby wipes. Because it’s just creepy.
Wow. I front load, but don’t complain if I see it backloaded and I don’t change someone else’s space if it’s not my way. I have a few questions…#40..there are STUDIES????? Seriously? My other question involves public places, such as a hotel room. Does a maid get fired if she backloads? And do the obsessive front loaders complain at the front desk if it’s done wrong? If a maid gets pissed at her boss, does she backload as a passive/aggressive way of getting even? Does she find satisfaction in doing so? In public restrooms, where it’s just two giant rolls facing each other, are they supposed to be front or backloaded? and can you even tell?
I walked in on a group of drunk college girls have a loud, slurred debate about this in a bathroom at a club. It was followed by which mixed race babies are cutest.
I’m a frontloader, but I’m pretty sure that backloading is the proper way to do it, according to ettiquette and posh hotel standards.
Now to figure out which fork to use first…
Am just happy it’s loaded front or back. Then it doesn’t tend to fall in because sitting on back of commode.
If someone else changes the roll it’s a freaking miracle.
Front loaded Scott tissue, close seat! (I will reload others.)
And to those who call me anal, I just want to say there’s only so many things I have control over. Give me this, please. And, it is too fair that everyone open and close the lid and seat. No combs, toothbrushes or cats in my bowl!
I’m a front loader, but its not intentional. Just realized after having reviewed this discussion.
Single? Double? Fold? Crumple? One? Many? Tear? Rip? Quilted? Smooth?
Front! Definitely! Most Certainly! I even switch it if it’s not…..no matter where I am…..friend’s house……work……restaurant……you just never know what could be lurking back there. Shutter*
Once the antidepressants kicked in, I’ve never given the tiniest rat’s ass which way it unrolled.