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Collected Item: “The Toilet Paper Chaos”

Give your story a title.

The Toilet Paper Chaos

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

It's a meme and I found it on google.

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Me and my family would go to the store to get grocieries, the shelfs were basically empty and had nothing on them. We needed toilet paper but there really wasn't any there, so we had to improvise and get paper towels which were about gone. The meme says a lot about the pandemic because it was a hassle to go to the store and get groceries cause there wasn't anything there.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#No,#Toilet, #Paper, #Wipe, #Butt, #Crisis, #Relatable, #Funny,

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-toilet-paper-shortage-panic/2020/04/07/1fd30e92-75b5-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

I have no idea

Give this story a date.

2020-03-14
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