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On our last morning at Disney, we had breakfast at The Contemporary, at Chef Mickey\u2019s. \u00a0Mythical wife and I agree that character meals are often great indulgences to partake in, especially with the kids, because it guarantees meeting a number of characters, without having to wait in gigantic lines, all while you get to relax inside an air conditioned place, eat and not be on your feet.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, I excuse myself to go to the restroom; and the first thing I do when I go into any public bathroom stall, is check the toilet paper.\u00a0 The last thing any man wants to happen is to do your business, only to shortly discover that there\u2019s no toilet paper or an inadequate amount of toilet paper left.\u00a0 And it was good that I did this, because the first stall I went into, there was nothing but the roll of cardboard left on the roll.\u00a0 Poor form for Disney, because usually they\u2019re on top of this kind of thing.<\/span><\/p>\n So I go into the adjacent stall, find sufficient TP left, and proceed to do my business.\u00a0 While I\u2019m sitting there, I hear the door to the restroom open, and I hear the labored breathing.\u00a0 In an instant, my mind is racing, wondering if this guy is going to go into the stall next to me, and if he does, should I say something to warn him about the conundrum he\u2019s inevitably going to have, but before I could do any more thinking, the guy is already in the stall, breathing like he was just in a race, belt buckle clanging on the ground and he\u2019s sitting and destroying the planet in the blink of an eye.<\/span><\/p>\n Seriously, I\u2019m picturing that scene in Dumb and Dumber<\/a> when Harry has to crap like the apocalypse because Lloyd spiked his coffee with TurboLax hearing what is transpiring in the stall next to mine, and unsurprising I hear an exasperated \u201cahh shit\u201d come from him, knowing that he\u2019s probably just noticed that there\u2019s no TP on the roll.<\/span><\/p>\n At this point, there\u2019s a part of me that\u2019s wondering if I should just stick to men\u2019s room etiquette and keep my mouth shut and mind my own business, but at the same time, I am very much aware that there\u2019s an emergency about to happen right next to me, divided only by an inch-thick metal wall.<\/span><\/p>\n There was a time in my life where I would just go the aforementioned route of feigning ambivalence and washing my hands of the situation, and leave the guy to fend for himself, but especially on a trip like this one, at Disney World, it occurred to me that there was a very high chance that this guy was like me, in the sense that he too was a dad, probably had dealt with a metric ton of bullshit, babysitting, kid-chasing and exasperation, and the absolute last thing he needed in the world was to be put in a scenario where he\u2019d have to bare-ass it out of the stall and try to wash his asshole in a public sink and hope nobody comes in and sees it.<\/span><\/p>\n So after I was done with my business, I gently extended my roll of paper down low to beneath the bottom opening, and softly said, hey man I think you\u2019re going to need this.\u00a0 He quickly grabbed the TP and was just like uhhh thanks, and I was off on my merry way back to my family.\u00a0 Although the interaction was short and very few words were spoken, I felt like I really did a very good deed, and I like to think that this guy knew how lucky he was to have been next to me, and didn\u2019t have to think too hard on whether he should swallow his pride and ask or risk a worst of humanity situation.<\/span><\/p>\n I didn\u2019t have to do what I did.\u00a0 I could\u2019ve just feigned ignorance and left Harry to fend for himself.\u00a0 But from one dad to what I\u2019m guessing was probably another dad, we endure a lot on these Disney trips, a bathroom meltdown shouldn\u2019t be one of them.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad I did what I did, and I think I did a really good deed and I applaud 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