We’ve lived in this house without owning toilet paper holders for over five years. Every once in a while it’s bothered us, but for the most part we’ve lived with the toilet paper roll sitting on the back of the commode or on the vanity top. Even on the floor.
But when we remodeling the bathrooms, we decided to come up in the world and install – you guessed it – toilet paper holders in each of the two full baths and the little powder room.
The remodeling is done, finished, over . . . BUT the toilet paper holders I ordered three weeks ago still have not come in. As Earl pointed out today, “We’ve gotten all the Christmas gifts we ordered via catalog during the last week or two, so why aren’t the holders here?”
It’s a good question, and I believe the answer boils down to service. The manufacturer of the toilet paper holders has given us one excuse after another. It was conducting inventory; it lost the order; it didn’t ship when it should have; blah, blah, blah. In addition, toilet paper holders are probably not on anyone’s gift list, so the manufacturer isn’t working feverishly to garner extra holiday sales and improve that all-important retail bottom line.
I supposed we could go to the local ACE and buy toilet paper holders off the shelf, but I’ve succumbed to the manufacturer’s promise one more time that they’ll be here early next week. In the meantime, the toilet paper is back in its old haunts. But it just doesn’t feel right.
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