York Dispatch
DOVER, Pa. — One of Deputy Chief Brian Widmayer’s firefighters told him Charmin was on the phone — yeah, the toilet paper company, the one with the happily dancing and wiping cartoon bears — and they wanted to know how much free toilet paper the Dover Township Volunteer Fire Department wanted.
Widmayer thought it was a joke. After all, “It’s not normal for somebody to call and tell you that you’ve won toilet paper,” he said. “I said, ‘Tell ‘em 1,000 rolls,’” Widmayer said. “They’re like, ‘OK, sounds good.’”
And then he forgot about it; the call made so little impression that now he can’t even put his finger on how long ago the Charmin rep called. But then the toilet paper showed up. In the midst of a Three Mile Island drill in April, UPS arrived with 15 2-foot-by-4-foot boxes of glorious two-ply.
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