Towelettes from Members
(Real people, not actors)






If you submit a towelette to the Royal Order of Towelette Collectors, as Peggy Napoleon did with the Pat & Oscars towelette pictured above, you may receive the standard ROTC blurb, which says:

Thank you for this great contribution! It will be archived, indexed, and cataloged. All appropriate security precautions will be taken to protect this towelette.

Legal disclaimer: freshness of the actual towelette can in no way be guaranteed and maintenance of said freshness is not to be considered a responsibility of the ROTC. While the percentage of moistness maintained by a towelette after acquisition by the ROTC may decrease, this does not devalue the towelette as a collectors item nor does it in any way reflect poorly upon the ROTC itself or the members thereof. Individual ROTC members are not considered libel for expenses incurred in efforts to maintain towelette security, including, but not limited to: guard salaries, the cost of machine guns, and monies expended towards the purchase and continued upkeep of helicopters.

Thanks!

Bruce Smith
Official Archivist and Historian
The Royal Order of Towelette Collectors



This KFC towelette was submitted by loyal member Jo Ann Avila. It was accompanied by a two-page, hand-written letter, describing the date, environs, location, and weather conditions at the time of the discovery of the towelette, as well as Jo Ann's own emotional state. Well, we certainly appreciate her thoroughness and her devotion to the cause. Unfortunately, Jo Ann failed to mention the genus and subspecies of the towelette and we would appreciate that information in the future.

Not long after the towelette from Jo Ann was posted, I received an email from a lady in Louisville, Kentucky. She was (I kid you not) selling a "vintage" KFC moist towelette on EBAY and she wondered if any of our members were interested in buying it. Bids began at $2.50.

I was polite, as always, but I would like to point out that we here at the ROTC don't pay for our towelettes. Beg and plead, maybe, but we don't pay for them -- except, that is, if we need one really badly or if that's the only way we can get it... but generally, we don't pay for them.



We can thank Peter Kendall for the Damon's towelette. In his letter accompanying the towelette he says, "I just can't stand it. My life will not be complete unless I can be a member of the ROTC!" That is EXACTLY the kind of fanatacism we like to see in our members. Thank you, Peter.



This "Wet Ones" towelette was submitted by ROTC member Stephanie Laguna.

Experience has taught me that, generally, there's only one towelette per package. There's not much more room in a towelette package for more than one towelette. It's not like you're going to open it up and find a bottle of water.

The makers of the "Wet Ones" towelette, however, wanted us to know for sure that there was only one towelette in the package. Look at the front. Not only is it a Wet ONE, but it's a single, and it's individually wrapped. I'm not quite certain how you could wrap up two things and call it a single, but that's okay. The bottom left of the package reminds us, again, that it contains just one thick cloth. Makes me want to call them up and ask, "Can you tell me how many towelettes are in a package? Because I don't want two, I just want one."



The towelette displayed above was obtained by Towelette Raider Kathleen Mayne. The artifact was discovered in the remote North American Wilderness in a location referred to as "The Ritz."

Kathleen says, "I discovered a whole basket full of Action Moist Towelettes in the ladies' facilities. Luckily this discovery was made early in the evening, as such 'Action' packets, after several drinks, could easily be mistaken for OTHER 'Action' packets that are frequently found in the restrooms of bars."

Quite often it's the story behind the towelette that makes it interesting.