Buddy's Blog

If you know me you know that one of the things that really wicks me off is shrinkflation, especially shrinkflation of TOILET PAPER! I was forced to stop in at an Aldi the other day. I don’t like Aldi. First time I had been in one in the past five years. In the restroom, check out the toilet paper. On the left is Aldi toilet paper. 3-1/4 inches wide. So thin you can see through it. That excuse for TP wouldn’t even span your butt cheeks.  On the right is Charmin 4-1/2 wide. The only place I can find it is at Costco. And even that is a bit narrower that it used to be.

And then last night, at the Elks Lodge, check it out. 3-1/5 inches wide. There are some big folks who go to the Elks. I mean B-I-I-I-I-G! You have to be real careful. You can only wipe one side at a time. Geeze!

Speaking of possums, I recall my old college friend, Jerome Touchton. He was from South Georgia, and quite a character. He was a year behind me, and he dropped out after his junior year and joined the army. In the mean time I went to grad school and then to work at UGA. I came back to Tallahassee. This was about ten years later. Turned out Jerome got out of the army and came back with a wife and baby to go back to college. He looked me up. I helped him a little bit with his physics course. The first time over his house he told me about this huge white rat that was sometimes getting into his attached laundry room. I said “Let’s go see if he’s there.” Sure enough he was. One would think that a Georgia country boy would know the difference between a possum and a rat. Or maybe it was a Mongolian mongoose. By the way, according to the morality police at Facebook, the term “Mongolian mongoose” is a form of hate speech.

You know, I have a Facebook page, and I don’t know why. I post stuff and they take it down. Like today’s strip. They say it doesn’t meet their community standards. It’s so stupid.

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