Shrinking Sizes

Thanks a lot to whoever gave me their most precious gift, the coughing, sneezing, headache, on and on. Seriously, I could re-gift this gift.

While on the subject, I have spent a great deal of time in the bathroom in recent days and something hit me the other day besides another jag of coughing, sneezing, etc.

My toilet paper has shrunk in size. I know it as a fact because the roll holder now has an inch left over where the roll used to occupy.

I googled the subject to find other outraged consumers are writing about the shrunken TP rolls, some even measuring the individual sheets. I got out my Pickett’s slide rule not used since geometry in high school and discovered quite quickly that my sheets were 4 inches by 4 inches now instead of the previous 5 inches by 5 inches. That means 1,000 square inches are missing.

Yet the price remains the same. I suppose the plan is to keep making these rolls narrower and finally get rid of that stockpile of adding machine paper occupying a corner of their warehouse.

And who says that The Monticello News is not on top of the latest consumer controversies.

Don’t get me started on how the coffee cans have gotten smaller.