WTF?!?

This is really getting ridiculous. I truly hope I’m missing something here, but damned if I can see how.

I hope what I’m about to rant on is obvious, but I feel the need to do so anyway. What The Serious Fuck?

#1 – How the hell does choosing which roll of toilet paper to use to wipe my ass with make one iota of difference? They’re both going to be used anyway eventually.

#2 – Putting a sticker on a roll of toilet paper DOES waste paper. That of the sticker, and that of the first few sheets that are wasted when you have to peel the damn thing off.

Please, PLEASE, tell me I’m missing something. Sure, it’s a trivial, first-world problem. But it explains so much too. Like why so many people no longer have any faith in anything environmentally conscious.

I firmly believe in supporting REAL environmental issues. And waste of anything bothers me intensely. But so often the solution is worse than the problem. Someone PAID to put this sticker on toilet paper rolls. Hell, there was probably a committee meeting where they discussed it and came up with the language and printed the stickers and implemented some automating sticker device to apply it.

Yet nowhere in that whole chain of environmental feel-goodism did someone step back and say… “Hey. You know… Really, this is stupid.”

And it’s not the first time. But it stares me in the face and screams, “WE ARE STUPID! AND SOMEWHERE, SOMEBODY PAID US FOR THIS!”