Can’t Undo

The wife went to the grocery store the other day (actually it was Tuesday).  Tuesday is the normal grocery day.  It is also the day we pick up our milk at the dairy farm (our assigned pick up day).  Invariably she will ask me if I need anything while she is shopping.  I rarely think of anything (in time) to tell her but even when I do, there are not good odds that it will be remembered (at least not the first time I ask).  I tend to ask for bathroom products like shampoo, deodorant or shaving cream.  Last week I asked for cotton swaps (Q-tips) but did not get them.  I was forced to dig around the bathroom cupboard for q-tips that had fell out of the container and settled on the shelves.  A new box was purchased but it was touch and go as the next grocery day approached as I had to look harder and harder each day.

This week I asked for (and did not receive) toothpaste.  I could head up front to the kid’s bathroom and borrow some of theirs but I am a little concerned that it might not be hygienically wise to do so.  My only other choice was to try to squeeze more toothpaste out of our near empty container.  I forget the name of the brand we currently use but the tube is quite hard and difficult to roll up to free up the last of the liquid inside.  I worked at it for a few minutes with little progress until the last turn produced toothpaste.  Too much toothpaste actually and I ended up with a large glob on the end of my tooth brush.  Anyone who has tried can tell you that you cannot put toothpaste back in the container.  You just can’t undo this, sort of like cutting your fingernails too short.  Now by “large glob” I mean the normal amount that they show in the toothpaste commercials on TV.

Sorry for the small picture size but I didn’t take a picture of my toothbrush this morning nor did I spend a lot of time with Senor Google searching for a comparable picture.  I was always amazed at the amount of product placed on the toothbrush in those commercials.  Does anyone use this much toothpaste really?  It seems like overkill.  Your mouth would foam up and you would look like a rabid dog after a little scrubbing.  Well today, not wanting to waste anything, I actually used this much toothpaste.  At first it felt odd, like I had taken a bite of some bad dessert.  Then the foaming began.  My mouth could not contain the foam as it rapidly multiplied in my mouth.  I pressed on though hitting the back teeth scrubbing away (and producing even more foam).  My foam creating kept going as I made another pass around the 27 teeth I have left (4 were pulled when I was younger right before I got braces and 1 was pulled a few years ago as it was a back tooth and was cheaper than getting a cap).  Anyway, it finally ended and my teeth were no more clean than normal brushing usually produces.  I am hopeful that the wife will remember toothpaste soon so this incident is not reproduced.

Jon