Regarding something you've known all of your life, has anyone presented it to you, years later, in such a totally new way that it made a much greater and lasting impact?

Asked by Val123 (12739

) December 8th, 2009

This is kind of gross, but it was prompted my the question of how to tell a girlfriend that she has bad breath.

I’ve known all of my life that I needed to floss, and I always have, but it used to be somewhat sporadic. Then about ten years ago a dental hygienist said (as a general observation…I didn’t feel it was directed AT me) “When you don’t floss, it’s like all of that food is sitting in-between your teeth, and just rots, like it does in a trash can on a hot, 98 degree day. Meat is especially bad.”

OMG!!…...Have you ever smelled rotting meat??? OMG! Since then I’m much more regular about my flossing! And I use toothpicks too…....

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Thanks for the mental image. Gonna go buy some floss now.

holden (8450

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@holden LOL!! Isn’t it horrible??!! But it’s TRUE!!

Val123 (12739

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Yes, I always suspected my wife had cheated on me, and when she finally told me, we had already been divorced (I was asking her to get back together and she told me just to hurt me.) The entire 7–8 years previous made sense and for a brief moment in time I felt like an enlightened being, ominous and seeing through the pages of time. We are back together now, married again for 4+ years, so I suppose it has made a much greater and lasting impact.

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