CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States
There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Brushing your teeth, really, is the bare minimum you can do to start your day
this entry brought to you by radiohead, "15 steps"
I had a friend, specifically a female friend, who I knew would go days without brushing her teeth. I was living with her and sleeping in the living room, so I would hear her alarm going off 10 minutes before she was supposed to be at work (it was a twenty minute drive away), and would get up in the clothes she went to bed in, and would directly leave the house with purse and keys. It was a couple days before I realized that the alarm would go off and she would literally be out her bedroom door a moment later, hair matted, and I realized there was no way she could be taking a shower-- she would rub on deodarant real quick, but no shower. Then I started to realize that she wasn't even brushing her teeth, which is the bare minimum of getting ready to leave the house. Out of curiousity I began listening at her door as soon as the alarm went off to hear her groggily get up, there'd be a moment of wandering around as she found her keys and put on her shoes, and would head towards the door when I would quickly dash away so it didn't seem like I was creepily spying on her, and she'd come out, say bye, wave, and leave.
I absolutely was disgusted about this not brushing her teeth thing. Horrified. And I could literally count the days before she finally brushed her teeth, which, inevitably, was a day off. She did this at least for a month straight. I can't vouch for any time after that because I moved out at around this time. But before I moved out I confronted her on it. How the hell could you possibly go without brushing your teeth? "Oh, I just pop some chewing gum," she'd say.
Sure, gum gives you fresh minty breath for the day so you don't offend everyone, but that hardly seemed the best reason to brush your teeth. Sure, I don't want to have bad breath all day either, but what I really despise is the wretched feeling of my teeth being unbrushed, where they are rough and you can literally feel plaque on them, where it literally feels like sugar is stuck to your teeth. Chewing gum temporarily relieves the problem-- after a whole day of chewing gum as a replacement for brushing, the sugar in the gum just reinforces this awful feeling. In fact, some days I'll do a sloppy brush job and all day I won't be able to stop obsessing over the spot that I obviously didn't hit well enough, and I get anxious to get home and run a toothbrush over them. After a week of existing with no teeth brushing, she'd ceased being a human being to me, but was instead a monster.
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on this day last year i found some racist propaganda on my lawn, and it made me think about how amusing racists are, because they are utterly useless.
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with love from CRS @ 10:08 AM
1 Comments:
There is nothing worse than waking up in the morning and not brushing your teeth and then you walk around all day with that terrible taste in your mouth and feeling like any time you open it you're emitting all these noxious fumes. Yuck. Please tell me you never kissed her. :P You can, however, kiss me since I brush my teeth twice a day. :)
