Where oh where has the ordinary toothbrush gone?

Some of you may remember a little incident I mentioned in an earlier post involving a toothbrush and the toilet.
Yes, the boys actually did flush my toothbrush down the toilet and yes the toilet now overflows on a regular basis. My husband and I always have the plunger at hand as the toilet is flushed to prevent overflow should it try to occur.
Anyhoo, once my toothbrush disappeared I of course needed to purchase a new one. So I set off to the grocery store to complete this oh so simple task. But simple, it was not.
Now, I don’t know how often you all change your toothbrushes out but we usually have Santa do it for us every christmas. A lovely new toothbrush appears in each stocking, along with cavity and sugar rush inducing goodies. At the time this happened it had been about 8 months since I had started using the latest toothbrush. Somewhere within those eigth months, a change occured.

As I stared at the endless selection of toothbrushes I saw they all had ginormous (yes it’s officially a word now) handles. They were toddler friendly toothbrushes made for adults and there was no way any of these fat handled things would fit into my toothbrush holder. The only skinny handled toothbrushes they had were the 69 cent, snaps in half in your hand while brushing kind.
I couldn’t believe it! The injustice!! The unfairness!
Any toothbrush that I use must be able to be stored in a toothbrush holder. Not on the counter. Not in the medicine cabinet.
I kindly asked the clerk if there were any quality, skinny handled toothbrushes in the back. Of course he said he didn’t know as he gave me the quizzical brow. So off I went to Target to find a toothbrush holder.
I assumed that if fat handled toothbrushes were “in style” that they must have started making fat handled toothbrush holders.
Wrong again.
Target did save my day by having some better quality skinny handled brushes. Now I’m realizing I should have bought ten.
Am I the only one annoyed by the fat handled toothbrush phenomenon? It certainly wouldn’t be the first time everyone else thought I was the weird one.

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July 16, 2007 | Filed Under Humor, Random

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4 Responses to “Where oh where has the ordinary toothbrush gone?”

Susan M on July 16th, 2007 5:23 pm

Our holder can accomodate the bigger sized toothbrush handles, and I’m pretty sure we got it at Target.

I just realized the hard ridges of plastic on the back side of my toothbrush is for rubbing my tongue. I have to say I love that.
kailani on July 17th, 2007 3:05 am

Something similar happened to me. I ended up buying a cup-style toothbrush holder. That way it didn’t matter how fat the handle was. :-)
summershine on July 17th, 2007 9:45 am

Okay, I have NO idea why I didn’t think of that. Feeling sheepish now. :)
Jennifer, Snapshot on July 17th, 2007 4:36 pm

I have that problem with my son’s toddler toothbrush, so I put it in brush first. That’s kind of gross, but the brush doesn’t go all the way to the bottom where the ick is.

I have bought toothbrushes in the last few months, and I haven’t had a problem. I might have to stock up if this is what is coming for the future!

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