So the other night I affixed a set of Whitestrips to my teeth. It had been a long day - a long couple of weeks actually, but I felt that there was no time like the present to embark upon my dream of a whiter, more beautiful smile.
Before I get to the point of this story, and there is a point...I think, anyway this teeth whitening thing reminded me that I am sometimes slow to take up new things. Just this summer I bought a tiny iPod Shuffle and OMG! now I think everyone should buy one. I mean, up until about three years ago I was running with a Discman, and more recently a small radio clumsily strapped to my arm. This iPod thing lets me play all the good/crappy music I want, and in any order. And it weighs about half an ounce!! Who else knew about this, I wonder, and for how long...
And about a year and a half ago, I got glasses. People have been wearing these for centuries. (Benjamin Franklin, for instance, or Jeeves the Butler, who wears only half is glasses because the other fell in his master's soup). For so long have I associated myself with perfect vision, it took about 4 months of reading and watching TV with one eye closed before it dawned on me that maybe that wasn't normal, not good. And so I had my eyes checked.
Back to the Whitestrips...it just never occurred to me until it did that I might benefit from them.
I just kept thinking that maybe my teeth, which have always been one of my better features, weren't as white as they used to be. It didn't occur to me that all those TV and dentist ads might apply to me, until it did.
So I put them on the other night - the strips - and thought nothing could be more uncomfortable. The box liner said that some may not want to use both the bottom and top strips at the same time, and I thought, "well, yeah, this is uncomfortable. I can understand why." But when I pulled them off, I thought that maybe my teeth looked a little whiter. Holy cow! It wasn't until the next morning, as I came to put another set on, that I realized that maybe the gooey part of the strip was the part with the gel - that is the part that works, and not the part to throw away. The night before I had tried to stick and fold the clear plastic base part of the strips, and I managed to hold them in place by keeping my mouth closed. In retrospect this is pretty impressive. I just kept thinking that they were awkward, and uncomfortable, and that the technology probably just wasn't there yet, which was curious, but oh well...someday we'll look back on them and think "Funny we used those!"
I'll let you know how it goes with the rest of the box.
