Story of the day 7/ 7/ 2013

My son, Ely, is visiting from Syracuse.
We took our dear friend, Anne, out for breakfast; and over breakfast Anne asked a lot of questions about shared housing.
She wanted to know how they split things like cooking and purchasing groceries and household items.

In the telling of how things worked, Ely explained about the toilet paper-
how he had realized,that he was the only one of the 4 housemates who ever bought any.
And how he would wait until they were down to 2 rolls, and then one roll, and then no rolls,for days, before buying more, just to see if anyone else would.

And I interjected explaining how I had told him to keep a roll hidden in his room during these experiments into the purchasing habits of people who had allowed the toilet paper to run out......

During the entire year, only twice has anyone else bought toilet paper.
The first time that someone other than Ely bought toilet paper, they bought one roll.
One roll?
One roll.

Worse, Ely had a friend visit , shortly after that roll appeared.
A friend who works at the same place as the roommate who bought it.

Ely's friend exclaimed, "Hey, that is the same toilet paper from work!"