there are two nearby grocery stores. both are hy-vees, which are the cheap, but better than sav-more or aldi, ones in davenport [think jewel, not dominick's, i'd say. right?].

anyway, there's a small one, which is a bit closer, and the big one, which is probably about five minutes farther away. so i went to the smaller one on sunday afternoon, in need of two of life's essentials: milk and toilet paper.

now, i'd never purchased toilet paper at the small hy-vee, and was stunned to find no 'paper products' (or whatever they call the toilet paper aisle) section there; alas, all the toilet paper was stacked on top of other shelves, with well-marked price tags and such. the well-marked price tags would seem to indicate that the 'on-top-of-other-shelves' section was, in fact, the toilet paper aisle.

anyway, after moving up and down the various toilet paper aisles, it became apparent that there were no packages of 'small' quantities [i'm talking 4 rolls] available.

so i grabbed a 24-pack, made my purchase, and headed to the car.

an obviously single guy, carrying 24 rolls of toilet paper. got a few strange looks. i counted three.