High quality toilet paper saves dude from a nightmare

Crisis averted.
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Brian Koerber
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Don't buy the crappy toilet paper -- your body deserves better.

While most people purchase the good toilet paper to treat themselves to a bit of luxury, one pampered person discovered an unexpected benefit from upgrading their roll. He texted the whole story to his friend and later uploaded it to Imgur, because the internet deserved to hear the tale.

Imgurian warjerch was in the middle of doing a load of laundry when he had to take a trip to bathroom. After doing the deed, he discovered the toilet paper was empty, and was forced to awkwardly waddle across the bathroom to fetch another roll.

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After finishing up, warjerch left the toilet paper on the top of his washing machine, which is located right next to the toilet. But when he returned to switch over his laundry to the dryer, he discovered leaving the toilet paper on top of the washing machine was a very bad idea.

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The paper was somehow sucked into the machine, leaving only an empty roll where a fresh roll once was.

"I expected a snowstorm from hell of tiny pieces of toilet paper all mixed into my work uniforms to the point they would become unwearable short of five clean washes," warjerch texted his friend.

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Miraculously, the Charmin Extra Strong toilet paper lived up to its name, and was still intact, though very tangled, when warjerch opened his machine. Impressive.

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He later updated his Imgur post to say that this toilet paper fiasco likely occurred during the spin cycle, which would explain why the paper held up so well. Either that or this is just a very elaborate and clever viral marketing ploy from the folks over at Charmin.

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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