Perhaps the cure to male loneliness is men stepping up for men. As a former lost boy myself, I certainly would have appreciated it.
Now I mentor the shit out of juniors in my professional life.
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For whatever reason, my parents never explicitly taught me how to floss. Now that my mother is elderly and needs help, I had the opportunity to observe her floss, and she did the most bizarre thing.
Rather than cut off a long length of floss before flossing, she held the container of floss in one hand and then flossed using only the little bit of floss needed at the time, kept pulling it out as she needed more, and then cut off the floss after flossing.
I couldn't decide if she was crazy or a genius, so I tried it myself. I still ended up using about the same amount of floss, but I think her method would be superior in the case where the floss broke during flossing. Otherwise, it's more of a hassle, so I don't do it. But I think if I was just used to flossing that way, it would have no downsides.
My mother came up with the most creative way to floss because I hated how it acts like a tourniquet on your fingers. You take the floss and tie it into a circle. It blew my little child's mind at the time.
And my father still doesn't floss to this day.
You made me think about how does a dental hygienist deal with tourniquet fingers all day, and I suspect that they have a way around it.
I don't know whether this is the correct solution, but I can think of two ways that they hold the floss differently to me. First, they wear gloves, which might protect against damage and provide more grip. Second, they tend to spiral the floss down their fingers, rather than create a complete circle of floss.
Maybe one of those things is an alternate solution. I'll probably give the spiral thing a go, but I'm probably not going to start wearing gloves to floss.
Oh I never noticed the spiral down the finger difference. Yeah that would spread the pressure over a large area.
I've been flossing with the circle for so long I find it the most comfortable and economic way of doing it by now.
When I turned 35 years old, I worked up enough courage to ask my dentist how to floss
I only looked it up on the internet after observing my mother.
I admit that I wasn't exactly doing it perfectly, but I had gotten close from observing how the hygienist flossed me during my cleanings.