Meet Subway’s biggest customer: Retired boilermaker, 86, has a metre-high stack of 2,000 NAPKINS from the club sandwiches he bought every other day for 10 years
- Man lays claim to what could be most bizarre collection in all of Australia
- Trevor Ross, 86, is a sandwich fanatic who pops into Subway every second day
- Over the past 10 years he’s kept the napkins and has a one-meter-high pile
A Subway fanatic who pops into his local store every second day for a footlong roll boasts one of Australia’s weirdest collections.
Trevor Ross, 86, has a metre-high stack of more than 2,000 Subway napkins piled up in his kitchen.
He’s collected them from the store in Pinjarra, about 80km south of Perth, where he has been the most regular customer for the past 10 years.
‘The grandkids are always pestering to be allowed to have one from my stash,’ Mr Ross said.
But he’s not letting them go. Not even one.
Trevor Ross (pictured) has a one-meter-high stack of Subway napkins piled up in his kitchen
The Subway fanatic pops into his local store every second day for a foot-long sandwich and boasts one of Australia’s weirdest collections
In fact, if you went to his house for a cuppa and spilled tea on your shirt, he says: ‘I’d offer you a regular napkin, but not one from my collection!’
Every other day he heads in to pick up a footlong Subway Club cut in two. He eats one for lunch that day and saves the other half for tomorrow.
When Mr Ross gets home he adds his latest collector’s item to the pile.
‘Some people collect button, others collect coins or rocks, I collect these napkins and I’m proud of the collection I’ve amassed,’ the retired boilermaker told Daily Mail Australia.
‘It helps make people cheery, and we talk about something that’s unique – who else saves napkins?
‘People are actually quite interested to see the collection in all its glory.’
But his one-of-a-kind collection does have a serious side.
Mr Ross was married for 62 years to a woman he had been close to since they were ‘little children’.
Mr Ross has collected napkins from the Pinjarra store, about 80km south of Perth (pictured), for the last 10 years and now has about 2000
The couple had two children, seven grand children and four great grandchildren.
But in recent years she battled a ‘long illness’ and he became her full-time career.
During that time Mr Ross said going to his local Subway was actually ‘a bit of outing’.
Sadly, his darling wife lost her battle in January this year.
The sandwich artists who provide Mr Ross with a new napkin every time he stops by said he had to be the most dedicated customer in the country.
‘Trevor is our best and most loyal customer – he always makes our sandwich artists’ day when he pops by for a chat and to grab his Subway favourites,’ Subway Pinjarra franchisee David Wills said.
‘He truly is a very special member of our extended Subway family.’