Teenage Girls: Toilet Paper Eating Machines

So in case people don't know, teenage girls are apparently toilet-paper-eating machines. Part of my weekend alone with the girls, while my wife is off studying yoga in a nearby city, has included going to the store, as mentioned in my last post, to get toilet paper because we were on our last roll. Remarkably, though not surprisingly to me any longer (which is even more remarkable!), the children needed only about fifteen hours, eight or more of which they were sleeping through, to use the entire first double roll of toilet paper.

For some reason, this is a household issue that drives me crazy and doesn't seem to bother anyone else. I think it's my being male. I can usually make it for a few weeks, on my own, on a single roll of toilet paper. Admittedly, I have fewer reasons to have to use the stuff, but I don't think most of it goes into the toilet with the girls. I just don't know what they do with it (I suspect the younger one mummifies her hand every time she uses it and the older one needs a foot and a half of it every time she needs to wipe her allergy-ridden nose). We average twelve (double) rolls every two weeks here, actually, and it blows my mind.

I consider this to be absolutely amazing. The girls consider it normal. Honestly, one thing I look forward to so far as the girls growing up and moving out is not having to buy the cheap toilet paper any longer!