Has anyone ever found this sight in their smallest room? Not to name names, but this seems to occur as a result of a male brain disfunction.
The same male that speedily transacts difficult and tedious tasks becomes inert when presented with a cardboard tube and a few bits of soft paper.
Why is this? How is it? He can come through the door sweat drenched from man-handling heavy, messy outdoor items, patiently repair intricate electrical faults, compute flawlessly with monetary transactions, whisks away the trash without being asked, and yet freezes at that moment when the paper tube runs low?
There is no dervish spring loaded mechanism to thwart his efforts. No lock and key on the refills so close within reach. No far-off bin to receive the empties, it is literally within reach. The reason has to be male genetics.
To prove this is not a learned behaviour, please understand, my sons have the same affliction. They both can impress with the prowess of genius mathematically, scientifically. They both are athletic and gentlemanly. Both have incredible work ethics any mother would be proud of, but given the same dilemma? Same results.
I tell you they are hard-wired to view swapping toilet paper rolls with the same regard as handling some venomous snake. Bless their little hearts. What can we do but help them?
In my early confusion about this condition, I attempted to explain to the young and impressionable male minds of the importance of mastering this task. My explanations were thorough...with the young males admirably performing the job while supervised.
Imagine my surprise at discovering that they (like their father) had an inborn aversion - it seemed to hurt their brains to contemplate replacing the paper. In discussing this with other female relations I found that the males of my family were not unique.
One of my male cousins became so tired of his wife trying to convert his lack of compliance in this matter that he drove a huge spike in the wall and hung a commercial roll of paper from a wire coat hanger.
As far as he was concerned his heroic effort should have settled the matter. This, of course, came up at the divorce proceedings where the female judge ruled in the wife's favour in every matter.
My conclusion? With all the things the man gets right, I should allow for his inability to cope with this tiny task and be grateful he wasn't afflicted with leaving the seat up syndrome!
The same male that speedily transacts difficult and tedious tasks becomes inert when presented with a cardboard tube and a few bits of soft paper.
Why is this? How is it? He can come through the door sweat drenched from man-handling heavy, messy outdoor items, patiently repair intricate electrical faults, compute flawlessly with monetary transactions, whisks away the trash without being asked, and yet freezes at that moment when the paper tube runs low?
There is no dervish spring loaded mechanism to thwart his efforts. No lock and key on the refills so close within reach. No far-off bin to receive the empties, it is literally within reach. The reason has to be male genetics.
To prove this is not a learned behaviour, please understand, my sons have the same affliction. They both can impress with the prowess of genius mathematically, scientifically. They both are athletic and gentlemanly. Both have incredible work ethics any mother would be proud of, but given the same dilemma? Same results.
I tell you they are hard-wired to view swapping toilet paper rolls with the same regard as handling some venomous snake. Bless their little hearts. What can we do but help them?
In my early confusion about this condition, I attempted to explain to the young and impressionable male minds of the importance of mastering this task. My explanations were thorough...with the young males admirably performing the job while supervised.
Imagine my surprise at discovering that they (like their father) had an inborn aversion - it seemed to hurt their brains to contemplate replacing the paper. In discussing this with other female relations I found that the males of my family were not unique.
One of my male cousins became so tired of his wife trying to convert his lack of compliance in this matter that he drove a huge spike in the wall and hung a commercial roll of paper from a wire coat hanger.
As far as he was concerned his heroic effort should have settled the matter. This, of course, came up at the divorce proceedings where the female judge ruled in the wife's favour in every matter.
My conclusion? With all the things the man gets right, I should allow for his inability to cope with this tiny task and be grateful he wasn't afflicted with leaving the seat up syndrome!
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