June 8, 2011
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MIA
I don’t think I’d ever lost a toothbrush until about 2 years ago, and now it is my endemic behavior. I either forget to pack my toothbrush or I simply lose it during my travels. In the last 2 years I’ve purchased around 10 new toothbrushes. On this trip I was quite proud of my keen toothbrush management skills until day 7, when I left my toothbrush in a hostel southern Israel. I bought a new brush the next day.
When I returned home and placed my new toothbrush in its holder next to his new neighbor, I imagined the following dialogue…
Left to Right: Oral-B, ColgateOral-B: Hi, Colgate. I’m Pope’s new toothbrush.
Colgate: ….
Oral-B: Have I caught you at a bad moment? You seem a bit reserved.
Colgate: It isn’t your fault. I just don’t think I have it in me anymore to pour time and energy in to making another friend who will eventually disappear.
Oral-B: WHAT? Why? How?
Colgate: I didn’t mean to startle you, and I don’t have all of the answers. All I can say is that the 9 before you disappeared — Steve, Herald, Rachel, Svin, Aeris, Ghenghis, Poe, Sham, Hector. And I doubt that your fate will be any different. Secretly I’m beginning to think Pope is some sort of toothbrush-stalking sociopath. The Dexter to our kind.Now my toothbrush is paranoid, and I can’t really help but take the blame. However, in my defense one of the previous MIA cases was justified. I dropped the toothbrush on the floor of the men’s room in JFK airport. Even the CDC could not have decontaminated that.
Comments (3)
LOL aww… poor toothbrushes… have they filed reports yet?
DUDE, me too with the toothbrushes. If I am not forgetting to pack it, then I am leaving it in some hotel room halfway through my trip. It used to be pillows, but now it is toothbrushes.
@HeySailor12 - We should start some sort of emergency toothbrush service. You press a red button and a toothbrush is air dropped to your current location.