PastorMikH
09-12-2009, 10:47 AM
Seems like almost everyone is cutting portions short. I personally find this irritating. I'd rather pay a little more and not have to adjust recipes and such, still being hungry after eating a frozen pizza that used to fill you up with pizza left over and so on.
But yesterday I made an observation that just goes too far. I'm sitting there working my sudoku puzzle and notice there sure seems to be a lot of that bar showing that the roll of toilet paper goes on. I find this rather odd. As I work my Sudoku puzzle, my mind keeps wandering back. Then a theory dawns on me, the roll of toilet paper is NARROWER than it used to be. When I finish the Sudoku puzzle and get up to leave, I decide to check this realization. I measure the width of the roll, 4 inches. I go out to my truck where I keep a roll stored under the back seat in case of emergency while in the deep woods. It measures 4 1/2 inches wide, same brand, but put in there about a year ago.
Is it really so bad that they have to go and change the width of a roll of toilet paper? The width that has been an industry standard for close to a century not only in the toilet paper industry but the hardware industries too? And how long will it be before they shrink the width to the point where it is no longer wide enough to safely protect my hand while it does it's job?
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What Product Downsizing irritates you the most?
But yesterday I made an observation that just goes too far. I'm sitting there working my sudoku puzzle and notice there sure seems to be a lot of that bar showing that the roll of toilet paper goes on. I find this rather odd. As I work my Sudoku puzzle, my mind keeps wandering back. Then a theory dawns on me, the roll of toilet paper is NARROWER than it used to be. When I finish the Sudoku puzzle and get up to leave, I decide to check this realization. I measure the width of the roll, 4 inches. I go out to my truck where I keep a roll stored under the back seat in case of emergency while in the deep woods. It measures 4 1/2 inches wide, same brand, but put in there about a year ago.
Is it really so bad that they have to go and change the width of a roll of toilet paper? The width that has been an industry standard for close to a century not only in the toilet paper industry but the hardware industries too? And how long will it be before they shrink the width to the point where it is no longer wide enough to safely protect my hand while it does it's job?
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What Product Downsizing irritates you the most?