My inspiration for this post came from my dear, longtime blogging friend, Debbie @ Musings by an ND Domer's Mom, who is not only a gifted...
Ok, I admit it…I’m terribly excessive when it comes to paper towel use.
(I’m so sorry TREES!)
Whenever I dry my hands, I can never seem to tear off a single sheet.
NO…I have to pull off enough so that I can MUMMIFY my entire body.
I can’t help it, but once I start pulling on the roll…I can’t stop.
It feels like I’m being POSSESSED by some unexplainable PULL-power.
I’m currently trying to break myself of this habit, by not buying paper towels any longer and just using a separate dish towel to dry my hands. I've also employed the use of old cotton t-shirts and underwear for cleaning glass.
However, now what I find myself doing…is BORROWING paper napkins from the bookstore café whenever I buy a cup of coffee, and then using them as paper towels.
You should see me…
…after I pour some milk in my coffee at the condiment station, I casually look around the café like some SPY agent, to make sure no one is watching. And then I quickly yank a FIST-FULL of napkins out of the dispenser and shove them into my backpack.
I do this about 3 times a week, so I can stock up.
And the other day I totally freaked, because I noticed that the napkin dispenser was empty (I wonder WHY?). So I took it over to the coffee bar, urgently asking the barista if he could replenish them. And after he refilled it, I placed the dispenser back on the condiment station and proceeded to extract about 50.
Aren’t I wickedly evil?
Even at work, when I’m cleaning off the glass counter top with Windex…I’ll pull about 100 yards off the roll, just to clean an area no bigger than a mouse pad.
I definitely think I have an illness.
I wonder if there’s such a thing as Paper Towel Anonymous?
“Hi, I’m Ron…and I’m a paper towel addict…and I also BARROW napkins.”
Oh, and PLEASE…don’t even get me STARTED on how much TOILET PAPER I use….
Update (monday @3:45pm): I would like everyone to know, that I just returned from running all my Monday afternoon errands; one of which, was stopping by the bookstore cafe' for a cup of coffee.....
....and GUESS what "I" did?
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