Questions of human nature
 

Well, maybe not, but habits or behavior. I'll be adding to this thread but at this very moment, I wonder about this one thing. Why do some people would lose their toothpaste cap and use the tube capless like that? Why? Why?? Why???? It's messy and dirty looking. I have a house guest, and it's a woman. She's driving me nuts. :thepain: I'm not being too picky here. This is the least thing that annoys me. Actually, I'm just wondering, it's not bothering me too much. She does lots of other stuffs that bother me. I'm gonna finish clean up and go to bed. I'm feeling tired and unhappy tonight. :(

toothpaste tube cap...

I can imagine this: The cap's been dropped and lost. Or worse, dropped in the toilet--never mind, found it, never mind... But, it's a new tube of toothpaste. I'd be inclined to keep using the rest of the toothpaste without the cap. Seriously, I don't want the cap back. No! NO THANK YOU!

My kids do that. But it's the 9yo who loses the cap. Every time. You use toothpaste twice a day -how nasty can it get?

Just use the one from your Preparation H instead :)

Even with a flip-top, which I prefer, it gets all gummed up and nasty. I usually clean it up once I get sick of it. Keep in mind though, I'm in a house with three males who don't care, so I don't waste a lot of effort on it.

We don't have this issue at our place. I don't know if it's just luck, but I can't remember the last time I bought toothpaste with a screw top lid. They all have flip off caps that stay attached on one side.

Max grabbing the toothpaste from in the bath if it's left on the wrong side of the basin is another thing though.

At least he smells minty fresh when he gets out I guess...

I dislike the flip top caps. They get dirty and crusty.

Wow, you lot must be messy. We don't seem to have a problem with them. They're awesome as far as I'm concerned, and my kids think i'm OCD about being clean! lol

Without a cap or substitute, the toothpaste in the neck of the tube becomes the cap which you can squeeze out and discard. The technique is called pre-pouring and has been used in medicine for decades. In this instance, we're not referring to pre-pouring in the sense of dispensing a single dose amount of liquid medication from a multi-dose container well in advance of administration; rather, we're talking about pouring off a quantity of something that's cream to ointment consistency which may have become contaminated where it comes into contact with the outside of the container or anything else.

Jeez, I should have such problems. I use the tubes with the flip back top. If they start looking grungy, I run 'em under hot water. Problem solved.

My late father swore by brushing his teeth with baking soda. He'd shake a little out of the box unto his hand, dip his brush in and presto - pearly whites.

Gel toothpaste gums up all over the attached cap area.

I run it under really hot water until it falls off. Bleck.

I thought about starting a thread about irrational pet peeves...here's one of my biggies:

Why oh why is it so hard to push your shopping cart all the way into the corral, mating it with the cart in front of it. You know, a nice neat line, all snuggied up...two rows. You can fit 25-30 carts in there that way.

But hardly anyone does that. Nice that they bother to put their cart into the corral, but they're all crooked and none of them are mated and you can get MAYBE 8 carts in there.

Sometimes I'll rearrange them a bit. :blush:

You must be a member of the Corral Cartel. :eek:

It's do-gooders like you who put the cart cowboys out of work. A lot of them are special needs people (that's short bus to you) who are glad to get this work. I hope you are happy shaving down their hours.
bitch.

I'm a card-carrying member of the Cart Corral Citizens Coalition for Careful and Correct Concentrated Control of Cart Cubbies.

Wanna see my card? ;)