One thing you may not know about our Storehouse is that because of the wide geographic area that we serve, we assemble about 70% of our orders and ship them out by truck to be picked up by the patrons at a chapel closer to their homes.

The other day I was tabulating some information for the change we are contemplating and I came across a peculiar entry.  Why, I thought, would a household of two people want 10 adult toothbrushes?  I looked over the order and noticed that it was written up by the same person who had, a couple of weeks previously, filled in 10 pounds of tomatoes when she really meant to put 10 pounds of potatoes.  Now our volunteers are taught to fill orders as written because we are not judge what others may need.  If it had been one of us in the office, we might have questioned it but this faithful volunteer filled the order just as the form was written.

I went back to the 10 toothbrushes order space.  Sure enough.  Right beside the toothbrush space was the space for toilet paper.  I stopped for a moment and then laughed and laughed.  I thought how horrified the unfortunate people would be to be expecting to get 10 rolls of toilet paper and instead getting 10 toothbrushes.  Now you know why I was the RS class clown.  It's worth a winter laugh.