Who Changes The Empty Toilet Roll?

It is a weird title but so true to my life. For over five years, I have found myself in the most strangest position at my place of work. Whenever I enter the ladies room, there lies an empty toilet roll dispenser and adjacent to that is a used roll of toilet paper. As a nurse in a hospital, I encounter many germs and and bacteria. The idea that someone would choose to handle an unplaced roll of toilet paper instead of replacing it in the dispenser is foreign to me. The roll would encounter more exposure to the environment that if used as designed. Perhaps, I have put too much thought on this issue. Maybe so, but each time I place the roll in its proper place. Its become a continuing gag whenever I enter the bathrooms of my institution. I am never disappointed to find that unraveled roll sitting on the sink or toilet. It seems to greet me upon each encounter.

The situation mirrors my life. What I believe is not what others believe. Given the same observations do not result in the same choice of actions. Interesting and puzzling. So often, what I observe to be a situation craving a resolution is not what others view. However, we can discern that everyone has a choice and its consequence.

In each family, there is someone who bears the responsibility. Naturally, you would think the role would be attributed to the head of household or perhaps the oldest. Not so for most of my peers. There's that old phrase that the chore becomes assigned to the one that does it first or oftem. There are no warnings that it becomes your sole responsibility.

In my family, I am the "fixer". The definition has broadened with my age. In my youth, I was the one who did it because things were handed down from one to the other. I did it to silence arguments or to lessen someone elses load.

I've tried to relingquish this title in my adulthood, but it sticks like glue. I am an adult with responsibilites of my own. I cannot fix everything as my brother in law once said. I have accepted this belief, but why can't others.

At this moment I have chosen that I am not the one to go around changing the toilet roll anymore. I only hope that someone else does that job that has been properly assigned.