What up wit dat?

My mom has been hurting lately. A bunch of physical problems have conspired to keep her house-bound. As a result, I have taken over doing 95% of the shopping for our household. And recently, trying to buy normal-sized rolls of toilet paper at the grocery store nearly turned into a fruitless quest, leading me to ask, "What up wit dat?"

Our grocery store has long rows of paper products at the back of the store. Trying to find ordinary (or I suppose they are called "single-size rolls") of toilet paper was darn near impossible! Everything was "Double size", "Triple size", "Mega size" and "Gi-normous size"rolls. Okay, I am just joking about that last one, but really! What's next? "Too big to fit on your toilet roll holder so you have to set it in the corner" size? "Fifty gallon drum size"? "Bigger than your house size"? "So Big your SUV won't be able to haul it home" size? Where does the insanity end?

As for me, I like using regular size rolls of toilet paper. Double and Triple rolls don't fit well in my dispenser, forcing me to chivvy it along until it gets to the point where you don't have to be Superman to be able to pull off more than a single sheet at a time. And I buy 24 rolls at a go, which allows me to store the rest in my under-sink cabinet.

Okay, I understand that families could use/need the bigger size. Fine. But what about the rest of us? I don't have the space to store those big rolls. If I keep them in my linen closet, the door won't close. And that's just with double rolls, let alone larger sizes.

What about those of us who don't need ginormous-sized rolls of TP? Are we doomed to be outsiders forever more?