toothbrushes
Two people at various times in my life--my mother and my former girlfriend--always made fun of me when they saw my toothbrushes. The bristles always poked out every which way, like they got into fights with tornadoes and lost, and the two of them marveled at how I could get my brushes to look like that.
"Who cares?" I thought. At least I use the damn things, right?
I took a look at my toothbrush the other day with a critical eye and decided that it'd paid its dues. It might have sighed with relief even as I threw it away. It was still serviceable, but I know you're supposed to replace them every so often.
Have you ever thought about how difficult it is to buy a new toothbrush when you just want a normal one?
I stood in the isle at Target and surveyed the choices before me. It seems the toothbrush engineers are still upset that Oral-B hired them instead of NASA, and so you have all sorts of different brushes: the Reach brush, the Bent To Thirty-Seven Precise Angles brush, the Electronic We Move It So You Don't Have To brush, the Blast Plaque Off Your Teeth With Sonic Power brush, the brush with both normal bristles and special In Between Your Teeth bristles, the Induction Charging brush, the Sensitive Brush, the Pulsating and Rotating brush, the CrossAction, the Advantage, the Indicator, the Pulsar, the Triumph, the Humming Bird (a flossing device that sounds like a name for a vibrator; part of its description ["With a simple push of the button, Hummingbird gently vibrates so it feels amazing"] doesn't help, either), and the toothbrush with a tongue scraper on the back side. A veritable arsenel against the War on Plaque.
All I want is a normal toothbrush. Give me a stick with bristles, and I'm a happy guy.
I finally grabbed the most normal looking one I could find and ran.
"Who cares?" I thought. At least I use the damn things, right?
I took a look at my toothbrush the other day with a critical eye and decided that it'd paid its dues. It might have sighed with relief even as I threw it away. It was still serviceable, but I know you're supposed to replace them every so often.
Have you ever thought about how difficult it is to buy a new toothbrush when you just want a normal one?
I stood in the isle at Target and surveyed the choices before me. It seems the toothbrush engineers are still upset that Oral-B hired them instead of NASA, and so you have all sorts of different brushes: the Reach brush, the Bent To Thirty-Seven Precise Angles brush, the Electronic We Move It So You Don't Have To brush, the Blast Plaque Off Your Teeth With Sonic Power brush, the brush with both normal bristles and special In Between Your Teeth bristles, the Induction Charging brush, the Sensitive Brush, the Pulsating and Rotating brush, the CrossAction, the Advantage, the Indicator, the Pulsar, the Triumph, the Humming Bird (a flossing device that sounds like a name for a vibrator; part of its description ["With a simple push of the button, Hummingbird gently vibrates so it feels amazing"] doesn't help, either), and the toothbrush with a tongue scraper on the back side. A veritable arsenel against the War on Plaque.
All I want is a normal toothbrush. Give me a stick with bristles, and I'm a happy guy.
I finally grabbed the most normal looking one I could find and ran.