HOW TO HANG YOUR TOILET PAPER, BY AN EXPERT TOILET PAPEROLOGIST

Here we go again with another discussion about how to hang your toilet paper. This time, an expert from the company that makes toilet paper is getting in on the action. Gregg Weaver is a senior scientist at Charmin. He says, “I’m team over.” But – he’s able to back up his allegiance with data. Or, at least, what passes as data these days. Here’s what he says:
– Ease of use plays the biggest factor in hanging your roll. “When you load the roll with sheets coming over, it’s easier to grab the sheets at the end of the roll hanging out from the wall. If the roll is loaded under, the sheet will hang closer to the wall, making it harder to find and grab.”
– The Over-hang is more hygienic. Weaver says that, by pulling your toilet paper down from the front side of the roll, you are avoiding any contact with dirt or germs that it might pick up from the back wall where, apparently, germs lie in wait to jump over to the toilet paper you are about to use. Weaver says pulling it from underneath “increases the chances of touching the wall, where others might have as well, especially in public places.”
* There you go. Argument settled.
* Here with a rebuttal is a Doctor of Wipeology from the Quilted Northern company.
* In any case, it’s good these companies have their crack teams on it.
* Now he’s got me obsessed about the germs on the wall behind the roll. I’m picturing something that looks like the Mucinex mucous monster.