Wackyfish

My mother is very enthusiastic about dental hygiene.
She is a health educator by trade so it makes good sense that she would find the latest dental technology exciting. So (while it was a bit odd) it was not surprising that she presented me with a brand new tooth brush, not 30 minutes after I arrived home from Samoa. Her excitement was palpable as explained the new feature of separated brush head that could flex around our teeth and some thing else I really don’t remember. I admit… I sort of tuned it out I am not nearly as enthusiastic about dental technology. I figured she was just being quirky and decided to smile and nod and find the whole experience endearing. She is after all my mother and I love her dearly.

The next morning as went to use said new tooth brush I noticed two small buttons on the handle. One had a plus and the other a minus. I touched the button with the plus and my tooth brush began to vibrate. To which I immediately thought to myself “ROCK! This is a cool toothbrush! No wonder mom was so excited.” At the time I took it as a nice reminder that my mother is often smarter than I give her credit for.

Several weeks of happy tooth brushing went by for me (and continue to this day, I might add.) Then one day several weeks ago as I was preparing to leave the house, I walked into my mothers room while brushing my teeth with my neato vibrating toothbrush. After a few minutes, she looked at me and said “what have you got in your mouth that is making that noise?” To which I pulled my neato tooth brush out of my mouth and said, “The fancy tooth brush you gave me. Remember?”
I think her draw dropped to the floor and she said in a shocked voice “It Vibrates?”
Which lead us to the hilarious discovery that she didn’t actually know the space age toothbrushes vibrated. Even funnier is that later that night she asked my father if he knew (as he has one as well.) He was also clueless.
But the funniest moment of all was when I pointed out the buttons and gave them a demonstration of how it worked.

I am so glad they are so exited about new dental technology. And I am also thrilled I can assit them into this new age of vibrating tooth brushes.