Dear Ann Landers,
am calling on you to settle matters in a friendly family discussion. While I was visiting family and other kissin' cousins last summer back in Iowa (near Sioux City, as a matter of fact), I brought up the subject of bow they all needed to reverse their paper towels and toilet tissue on the spools since they were placed incorrecdy. The paper rolls should be coming from the wall up toward the top, over and out. They all disagreed. Please setde this for all of us. In the meantime, they are calling me

Dear Readers,
Remember the reader who was having an argument with her cousins about the proper way to set up toilet tissue? She was certain the right way was with the paper coming from the top-over the roll. Her cousins insisted the paper should come down under the roll. I sided with her cousins because that's the way my mother did it. Actually, I very nearly didn't print the letter because it seemed so in-consequential. Well, folks, I couldn't have been more mistaken. In short order, I was bombarded with letters from the four comers- including Samoa, Guadalajara, Athens and Mexico City. I had no idea so many people cared about toilet paper. Here's a sampling of what turns people on these days: