Mixed Messages
2007 March 22
As I was checking out at the local everything store yesterday, I spotted a small bag of flossers on the rack of junk opposite the cash register. You know, the little plastic toothpick thingies with dental floss attached to one end:
I hate using traditional dental floss and I’ve used these before with some success so I tossed them in my basket without another thought. After I got back home I started to use one…
… and it had the strangest flavor…
That’s when I noticed the bag:
I thought it was strange that they were pink but it didn’t register… don’t know how I missed the Dubble Bubble logo. It might have been the 12 year old and the 9 year old bickering beside me.
Bubble gum flavored dental floss.
What’s next, cheeseburger flavored diet pills?
Well, I guess it works, considering that prophy paste and topical oral anesthetic also come in bubble-gum flavors…as well as some children’s medications…whatever it takes to get the kiddos to open wide!
Whoops…I forgot the most important part: I’m so proud of you for flossing! Those little pick-type flossers are just fine, as long as you floss and do it correctly. (Can you guess one of my many previous occupations?)
When they make pizza flavored diet pills and flossers, I’m in.
how did you miss the double bubble?
Even I, with the bad eyesight couldn’t have missed the Double Bubble logo. But then again, I wasn’t with the 12 and 9 yr olds, thank God!
That’s really cool and I must get some when I travel to America
So I bet you have a bubbly good time kekeke..
I have now seen it!! I would rather have had Bazooka Floss, but beggars can’t be choosers
I have never used dental floss .. and well my teeth are pretty clean. Shouldn’t a mouth wash do the trick?
Chocolate flossers I would be all over that!
lol thats funny
my dentist explained to me that if i don’t floss every 24 hours, the guck between my teeth (not reachable by toothbrush or, alas, weak enough to be mouth-washed away) will furrow into my gums and push the teeth bones away.
but i don’t know what kind of mixed bag a cheeseburger diet pill would be. good lordie, i’m hungry for one now.
Art, you forgot a very important part…………did it taste good??????? I hate to floss so maybe bubble gum flavored would be an incentive. hugsssssssssss
I’m afraid I’d be a disappointment to Vicki – I don’t floss although the dentist doesn’t scold me when he checks my teeth either so it can’t be all bad.
Not noticing the double bubble, I’m wondering if you should visit the optometrist again?!