The shelves offer more toilet paper now, for which I am grateful. I can live without pasta or Del Monte Cut Green Beans, but TP is essential -- a tough item to lose.
These shelf offerings are unknown to me. Where is my familiar Charmin Essentials Soft?! I see Angel Soft over there, but I've been down that road before and it was disappointing.
We have strange faces staring back at us: Aqua, Rojo, Hill Country Essentials. I recognize the Hill Country label so that's the one I choose.
I take it home. It is dense. Hefty. Promising a substantial roll instead of a readily emptying one.
But, oh! Discoveries! Alas, it is one-ply. The dreaded, joke-inducing one-ply. So thin. So..... cheap. It doesn't tear at the perforations! Are there perforations? An attempt, presumably, at perforations.
Time passes and I grow to appreciate my one-ply. It is indeed a hefty roll. Though thin, it be sturdy. It lasts a long time between tube changes. If not the handsomest of packaging, it is reliable and not altogether unpleasant. I come to be surprised at how much I delight in one-ply when compared with other knavish plies I have purchased.
During this novel coronavirus, I have learned true love. A love for the vexatious, the irksome, the infernal. A love that has not only come to tolerate one-ply, but may even keep him around when new choices appear on the shelves.
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