PunishmentWrite 100 times: "I promise to use a Plastic Tooth Brush"I promise to use a Plastic Tooth Brush
I promise to use a Plastic Tooth Brush
I promise to use a Plastic Tooth Brush
I promise to use a Plastic Tooth Brush
I promise to use a Plastic Tooth Brush
I promise to use a Plastic Tooth Brush......
Oh while I take a break, here goes my story.....
If you had caught up with me somewhere last December, I was beginning to experiment different schools of thought in Alternative Medicine for a natural approach to healing. As it is am this environmental freak that explains my id pENVIRO.
After Acupuncture, Homeopathy I tried Naturopathy. I leart how to go into a fast and break it. Survive the whole day with a glass of water and still brisk walk 7 rounds in the park. In the bargain I think I dropped around 7 kilos too!
I stumbled upon this thing called Oil Pulling where you will find a post in my blog and did it religiously for 3 months, and as a stint for Global Warming I had given up on hot water. Then for plastic usage I was looking for something that I buy frequently, 100% plastic only to hit upon my tooth brush! Something I throw for a new one every month.
So out went the brush and in came Neem sticks and tooth powders. Yup those bitter sticks and muddy ayurvedic powders.
Against all norms, few days back, I entered this posh dental hospital/clinic oh I dunno, it was too big to be a regular clinic and too small to be a regular hospital. Anyways my parents were getting their dentures fixed so I just tagged along.What do you know! I was told that I have number of deposits and Tartar. Belch!
Mom and me walk in the next day, for a mixed up appointment where my Mom had one timing in her head and me with another, the poor confused receptionist! Wondering whether we would ever have the appointment back, I was suprisingly called by this cute looking doc. My excitement was so short-lived once I was put under the spot light and this huge machine. Next half hour was pure pain where I was allowed to say "Ow!" during every break and a bigger one when I spat all the blood. The needle screeched as it drilled down my tartar, and the doc was drilling my head as to how could I have managed to get my teeth in such a bad shape. I confessed.
With numbness, I then sat for a class on "How to brush and floss" given this huge toy brush and a bigger set of gums and teeth for practice.
Bad enough I was sized down to a 3rd standard kid, next my mom wanted to meet him. Now that I had behaved badly I was summoned to "meet the Principle with the Parent". He then tells mom ,"Pl ask her to use a Plastic Tooth Brush". Mom looks at me quizically wondering "When did we start calling the Tooth Brush "A Plastic Tooth Bush?"!!!!". And he lets the cat of the sack complaining on my "Experimentations with Naturopathy". I was saved by the bell (my phone started ringing). I let the elders discuss the issue with the child's bad habits.
I was then given clear instructions on Using Colgate 360 Tooth Brush and Colgate 360 Tooth Paste, only. I am know for breaking rules, but hey what do I do if the store dint have both, so I settled for an Oral B with my favourite herbal toothpaste, Meswak, with the yummy saunf taste.
Saw the doc last evening and the first question that pops out was "Did you get yourself a Plastic Tooth Brush?" Yessir! sorry, Yes Doc! Umm...Whatever!
Love,
Poornima Ravi
That is 'Ralia' calligraphed in Arbic. For a long time Ralia has been trying to learn the language so that she can read the Koran better. For her b'day I wanted to gift her one of the first words she is going to learn in Arabic. I can't say its completely original. I've seen something similar but not exact in a friend's room. Sometimes creativity can be borrowed, but what's more important is the application in the appropriate time. I could have not chosen a better time than this.
