Thank You for A Tooth Brush like a Printer like a Dangling Carrot
I have big teeth. A whole lot o’ teeth. Seventy five percent of my face is teeth. The other twenty five percent is cheek bones. (I see through my eye teeth.)
I have one of those Sonicare electric tooth brushes. The first time I used it, I was unprepared to be vibrated into a parallel universe where my head became a gyrating metronome moving back and forth like a Maytag washer set on Durable, starring in the Exorcist.
It was scary.
Saliva sprayed all over my bathroom mirror, my pajamas, my unsuspecting cat who ran away, never to jump on the bathroom counter again, and some of my DNA may have made it as far as the parking lot of my building through an open window. I’m not sure.
Okay, after four years, I think I got a grip on it.
I learned if you push the ON button after you put it in your mouth, it’s tidier and the cat will come home (but she stays in the back ground now).
I like my toothbrush. My teeth are healthy, I can chew door knobs.
I don’t like the part where I have to buy the replacement heads at twenty five bucks a pop. I don’t like the part where the company keeps doing that “New and Improved” thing and confusing me with replacement heads that don’t fit my original holder.
Leave it alone!
I like it the way it is!
I finally figured it all out!
Stop!
I think maybe we never actually buy a product. We only buy the promise of a product and invest our future dollars in the company’s future.
Another example: A Printer— Keep those ink cartridges expensive, you sneaky corporate tricksters dangling an inexpensive printer like a carrot leading to useless without a new part.
We buy stuff that works, then we have to buy stuff to keep it working.
We get familiar with what we like, and they change the packaging or add another element that did not come with the original.
This makes me mad enough to spit —even when I’m not brushing my teeth.
But I am thankful for my toothbrush now that I have the right replacement head. I can take a bite outta a dangling carrot like nobody’s business!
Funny story. I enjoy your blog a lot.
Thank you for the laugh and at least you’ll never be locked in a closet, you could chew the handle off. *laughs*
My Sonic Care drove me nuts. I finally gave it away. I love my Braun Oral B though, and replacement heads are around 5 for $26 or something at Costco. Just in case, ya know, you ever want to replace it. The nice thing about it is that the “new improved” brushes fit on all the older handles–so when they upgrade you can too–for the price of the brushes.
Printers? I have friends who routinely just buy new ones on sale because it’s cheaper than the replacement ink cartridges. Run out of ink? Buy a new printer.
I am out almost out of ink, again, already. I am considering their solution. Or maybe buying one of those office style printers with the powders instead of the neat little cartridges. It’s a pain in the ass, and you are so right–rip off.