After the World Health Organisation declared the coronavirus to be a pandemic, many rushed to stores to panic buy essential goods like pasta, tinned goods, and toilet paper. Unfortunately, this has resulted in severe shortages for those without the means to buy these items.
Now, one mother's toilet paper stockpile has met a hilarious end after her kids decided to play with it...
In the video below, Hilary Duff goes in on millennials not taking the coronavirus seriously:The fate of the mom's 18-roll packet of toilet paper (which, admittedly, isn't the worst example of stockpiling) wad revealed on twitter by British journalist Ed Cumming who wrote: "My friend bought 18 loo rolls and her kids put them all in the bath."
As the picture above demonstrates, the toilet rolls are not alone and they're accompanied by an assortment of children's toys. Kids will be kids, even in the face of a global crisis!
Needless to say, users of the social media website were tickled by the fate of this toilet paper stockpile.
One Twitter user joked: "Add some sugar and yeast. The bogroll bathwine should be ready in a couple of months."
A second wrote: "A few more weeks and those rolls would've paid the kids [sic] uni tuitions..."
A third added: "I would say 'shit happens', but in this case it might have to wait..."
However, some Twitter users did say that it was karma for stockpiling with one writing, "Karma. Just hope the weak and vulnerable haven't missed out owing to her selfishness."
But another did rightfully respond to this particular critic by saying that toilet paper does come in larger packets in the UK.
They wrote: "18 rolls is hardly 'selfish' given that Tesco sells a 24-pack. As do several other brands. Hardly building the London toilet roll mountain, is she?"
Meanwhile, one unlikely retailer in the UK, the adult store Ann Summers, has come up with a novel solution to the pasta shortage by putting its penis-shaped pasta on offer.