As far as myself goes, the placement of toilet paper is a non-issue since I just set the roll on the back of my toilet on top of my Popular Mechanic magazines. If I'm going to have guests that I want to impress (the preacher or my nickel poker buddies), I might slide the roll down on the plunger next to the toilet to give my bathroom that rustic look.
Anyway, back to the question - what's the "right" way to hang the toilet paper? After polling folks on the Internet, up there at Winn Dixie, over at Wal-Mart, and down yunder at the post office, I found out:
- 51% of folks hang it with the paper dangling over the top.
- 24% hang it with the paper dangling at the back.
- 14% of folks say that they hang it whichever way they can get it on the roll the fastest.
- 11% ain't got no toilet paper holder.
- 1% said, "Daggum, I'm a guy! I don't know how to change that toilet paper thang!"
- Less than 1% (actually 0.03%) didn't know what toilet paper was.
Of course this only answers the question about how most folks hang their toilet paper, it doesn't address the question of what the "right" way is to hang it.