Proceed with caution

This is a very common sight in Mexico

It even happens in peoples’ own homes

In fact, just about the only place where you are likely to see toilet paper is in the supermarket, where it is cheap and plentiful, and sold in individually wrapped rolls to trick people into buying an insufficient amount.

This depression-era rationing of T.P. has certain effects. Some are quite obvious:

Others are less predictable:

And then some are just strange:

It plays with your mind. You begin to feel things about toilet paper that you have never felt before. That which is scarce becomes coveted. When, on the rare occasion, you see that by some massive oversight a person has unwittingly left free toilet paper unguarded, you feel an urge to act. That which has become so highly prized must now become yours.
In the end, the question is not if you should take it, but how much.