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Buying Toothpaste

by Derek on December 12th, 2005
Buying Toothpaste

Semi-true story. I didn’t pick a toothpaste willy nilly, but I did end up getting bubblegum flavored toothpaste. The thing is that I like Crest’s Neat Squeeze toothpaste bottle because it makes it easier to get every last bit of toothpaste out without any weird folding, rolling and all that stuff you think is helping but really isn’t. When I went to Duane Reade though there was only one neatsqueeze bottle that was Kid’s Crest (the one on the bottom). I mulled over it trying to think of whether or not there could be anything wrong with it. It said it sparkled which I didn’t see any harm in so I bit the bullet and bought it. I opened it later on. Bubblegum flavored.

I used to hate mint with a fiery passion when I was little so I had trouble with the mint flavored toothpaste. I tried the bubblegum toothpaste when I was little and even then I thought it was gross. So now I have this bottle of toothpaste that doesn’t make my mouth feel clean when I use it. I’m going to get another bottle and this one will act as my reserve. Tragic.


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Post Toothbrushing Appetite

by Derek on January 28th, 2005
Post Toothbrushing Appetite

This happens to me a lot. I’ll brush my teeth and then I’ll get hungry for something, because usually I don’t go straight to bed after I brush my teeth. So then maybe I’ll want some crackers or ice cream. Usually ice cream, and especially if I had a long day. Right now people are silently cursing my name because I can eat ice cream right before I go to bed and not gain any weight. Don’t worry, I’m sure it’ll catch up to me someday. Someday.

Ice cream’s one of those things that’s so tremendously fattening, but I grew up eating ice cream at night all the time never gave it a second thought. I remember the first time I looked at the nutrition facts for ice cream. Basically I was briefly horrified and then probably finished half a pint. Sometimes I can’t have ice cream at home because my freezer gets too frozen over and I’ll have to wait until it’s empty so that I can defrost it and then fit ice cream pints inside of it. Even then I can only fit them in sideways ’cause I have a tiny fridge.


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Toothbrush Choices

by Derek on January 27th, 2004
Toothbrush Choices

We’ve all seen the various commercials about the new innovative toothbrushes out there, but do they really work that way? Biggest culprit I think is the one where it has the big fat white bristles on the top and then the green and white spikey ones on the side that the commercial shows digging around the tooth to dislodge plaque. I tried using one of those and it felt like the bristles were so uneven that only a few of them were making contact with my teeth. Maybe I was using it incorrectly or maybe it’s actually a bad design. All I look for in a toothbrush are the ones with slightly longer top bristles and a curved handle with the rubber grip. It shouldn’t be hard to find simple toothbrushes but sometimes it’s like looking through the aspirin section of a pharmacy.


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Toothpaste Errand

by Derek on September 24th, 2003
Toothpaste Errand

Great/worst thing about the convenience of New York is that it lets you be a completely lazy slug. This strip is pretty much verbatim something that happened to me. I think I had been taking a nap when it occurred to me that I needed to get toothpaste (usually I only buy it as I need it instead of stocking up), but I found out I had an extra tube.

It’s really scary how much you can do now without leaving your apartment. Especially with services like Fresh Direct and also Urban Fetch before it went under. Also if you have on demand cable you don’t have to rent videos, or the same deal with Netflix. Pretty soon we’ll all be like Jabba the Hutt where we basically just stay in one place all the time. Eew.


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