I think if I had to describe myself in matters of hygeniene I'd have to say that I'm a slob that has gradually learned how to be clean. I'm not saying this is the state of all people; maybe most people start off with hygenic instincts. At some point in freshman year of high school I learned about self-cleaning your mouth. I had been treating the toothbrush and floss as crutches and had become far too dependent on them. After all, if you only rely on those to clean your mouth then by the end of the day you have totally gross teeth. Those days my lunch bag (the insulated kind) typically contained a sandwich, a fun-size bag of chips, a juice box, and a dessert. I don't recall bringing Oreo's often, but I must have done so occasionally because of a distinct incident. A guy I sat with at lunch (who would later become famous for his sparse but squirrelly sideburns) decided to call me out one day on my oral self-cleaning. I had probably been done with my Oreo's for a good 5 minutes and my teeth still had the equivalent of half a cookie in crumbs lodged in them. I hadn't been talking over-much, so my tongue was definitely available for the cleaning, but I just wasn't really wise to the process. After being made fun of publicly for having poor self-cleaning skills I vowed never to let it happen again. The last thing I have to say is that self-cleaning after eating Wheat Thins is typically very painful for some reason.
Posted by tdupuy at October 7, 2005 7:03 PM