I've never had so many issues with toilet paper placement.

A few weeks back, I told y'all about my daughter-in-law putting the toilet paper on the roll backwards. Some of you sided with me. Some of you sided with her. 

A few of you told me to grow up (which I will never do). 

Well, this toilet paper drama isn't done.

My grandson is staying with us for a bit. Good kid. Funny. Sweet as they come.

Common sense? Not a lick.

This is a boy who takes a shower before he mows the lawn.

I asked him about it one time and he said he "likes to start clean." I stopped asking him things after that. Some doors you just don't open twice.

So the other day I walk into the guest bathroom and I see this.

Not backwards. Not sideways.

The empty cardboard tube still on the holder. And the new roll just… sitting on top of it. Like a hat. 

He had the new roll in his hand. He got within four inches of doing it right and just quit.

So I called him in there and asked him what in the hell I was looking at.

He looks at it. Then he looks at me. Then he says, "It's toilet paper, Pops."

I said, "Son, the tube is empty. Take it off. Put the new one on. That's the whole job."

And he says — I want you to hear this the way I heard it — "Why does it matter? It's still right there."

Then he looked at me like I was the one who was crazy.

Y'all, I stood there for a second. I opened my mouth. Nothing came out.

So I just walked off.

My wife asked me later what happened. I told her I lost an argument to a boy who showers before yard work.

She said, "Sounds about right."

Am I losing my mind here, or is putting a roll on a holder still considered a basic life skill?

Enjoy your Sunday!

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