Paper Towels

It has been four weeks since any of the stores I frequent have had paper towels. Now you must understand that in Asian countries most of the time you will find a roll of toilet paper on the food tables even in most restaurants. They use this to wipe their hands after eating. I have observed that they don't need a whole lot of it either, and they don't even need to put them in their laps, what a clean culture. Now me on the other hand, I take a few and then the stuff just falls apart on me. So I try another few. After I am finally semi cleaned up I have a whole stack of TP in front of me. Now me being the economical person that I am, I think to myself I could have used one napkin for all this and been saving money. Napkins are sold in the stores and are plentiful. Most are decent size and strong but some of the brands are as bad as the TP. Now back to my paper towel story. I am not sure if they just had a shortage in the countries where they import them from or if they just missed the boat from wherever they come from. Paper heaven I guess. But today I was truly excited to find 3 rolls in the store. I bought two of them thinking that I should leave one for the other foreigner who shops there. These even have a pretty print on them. They are shorter than the ones in the states but the thickness is good. Have you ever tried to drain meat on TP or napkins, well I can tell you from experience that it takes about a quarter of a roll and is not a pretty site when you are done. It took me 5 minutes to get all the TP out of the meat. O thank you Lord for sending me those paper towels.