As I was using the restroom at work today I noticed a pile of toilet paper in the corner. I think the combination of sleepiness/the need to purchase toilet paper for the house/my past spurred the overwhelming urge to stuff as many rolls of toilet paper as I could into my lab coat and make a run for it.
Weird, right? This has never happened before and no, I did not succumb to this freakish act.
As I was washing my hands, I remembered why my brain would jump to that thought with the mere sight of cheap institution style toilet paper.
This is why. When the RACK was living in Italy, we thought our money should be spent in one of two places. Food or travel. Is toilet paper food? No. Travel? Absolutely not. We were a little um what's the word....clefto while we lived in Italy. We not only stole toilet paper from every hotel/hostel/restaurant we went to. Well, not every, but a lot. But I actually still use a huge towel that we all stole from our first place of residence in Florence. Maybe I shouldn't be putting this on the internet. The Italian policia are going to come find me and drag me back there! Uh oh...come and get me!
Also on our list of stolen goods: tiny espresso cups, a DVD from blockbuster (that was an accident..) and artificial sweetener...it's probably illegal in the US and we are going to get some freakish disease because of it. Karma. I don't know what got into us over there. We are usually upstanding citizens... :)
Anyway, just thought I would share that although I have been thief-free for a good 6 years, I still have the urge when confronted with massive amounts of toilet paper.
