At work, we’ve got on each floor an area for coffee, a sink, fridge, microwave, etc. Facilities purchases the cheapest crap they can to fill the are up. I understand the logic as to why. When there’s only 1/4 pot of coffee, I’d think nothing of dumping it out to make a new pot. I’m not the one paying for the coffee. At home, I lick the coffee flavored condensation on the lid of the maker to ensure I get ever last bit of caffeine I can. So I see where people will tend to abuse conservation when it’s not something they pay for.

However, I take exception with paper towels.

See, at work they have the thinnest paper towels known to man. Literally,  you must practice caution when handling them since, if turned and faced edge on, they would slip through the fabric of space-time. You must fold each segment twice in order to give any sort of resemblance to a three dimensional object. I didn’t know they even made half ply.

Seriously, it takes two or three towels to sop up a quarter sized dollop of condensation. So we tend to go through towels three times faster than if we had decent stuff. This is why I request the Mrs. to only purchase the highest price paper towels she can find. They last longer, work better, and you don’t run the risk of temporal paradoxes is you drop them.