Gum

My favorite gum!
Mint Mojito in particular, it tastes like Vietnamese food!

I do have other things I could write about but I can't live without gum. It's not that I particularly want to be chewing all day, it's just that there's nothing worse than breathing in the air of a person who could really use a stick. I never want to be that person!

Breath mints are great but they don't last very long. It's gum or nothing, sugarless at that.

I hated brushing my teeth when I was a kid because the toothpasted burned my mouth. (Oh, the pansy kids of today have it easy with all the "mild" and "fruity" toothpastes! I'm kidding.)

So, as a reward for brushing my dad would let me chew a piece of Wrigley's Spearmint gum--the kind that says, "Hello." Not sugar free.

No great wonder that few of my teeth remain in their natural state. How did this degenerate into another oral hygiene blog?

Have you ever noticed that the larger the wad of gum, the greater the urge to blow a bubble? To avoid this in potentially sensitive situations (classroom, work, church, choir) I usually stick to half a piece. Orbit gum isn't quite as amenable to halving (not to be confused with calving) as other varieties so the other day I stuck an entire piece in my mouth before going to the store.

Inevitably the bubble blowing motions started but somehow they got of sync; the blow overcame the compression and a green blob of gum went flying out of my mouth.

Relieved that I'd been unobserved I retrieved the offending glob but I couldn't stop laughing. That part was kind of embarassing.