When the shop prepared to deal with ski renters last winter, we hired a professional cleaner to keep the bathroom hygienic for the public and ourselves. The work is done by a friend of the business, who works for a company that mostly takes care of rich people's houses. Rich people like the little touches. She would always tidy up the toilet paper roll with a nice little hotel-style point fold.
This was followed by a slightly embellished, but still minimalist variation of the point.
After a while, she raised the bar with a mysteriously pressed design.
Some of you may know the trade secret of this, but we didn't. We were content to be fascinated by it.
Next she progressed to something even more artistic:
Now none of us wanted to be the one to despoil the origami, so anyone who needed paper would use the backup roll sitting on the tank lid. It shows more luxuriously when the roll is smaller.
This past week she set a new standard in ornate TP presentation.
We had formerly purchased only non-flowering hybrids of toilet paper. But June is certainly a time of blossoming. It has survived for days, as we use the backup rolls, paper towels, shop rags, or our own socks first.
While we won't hold her to an ever escalating scale of grandeur, we will enjoy whatever she is able to share with us. Little touches of art belong in ordinary life.
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