I like that he found the toilet paper roll to let the breeze in--nothing dumb about that!
In a waking dream, I kept experiencing empty toilet paper rolls in each bathroom I entered and lamented why I had to be the one changing them all? After all, why couldn't these other adults (at a retreat center) just as easily put on a new roll? I asked my dream teacher to interpret the waking dream and he said he'd take it as a positive sign, that I am an agent of change :) I really did love the way he reframed my experience and seemed also a positive aspect of your story too :)