I had dinner with former officemates two weeks ago. One of them mentioned his pet peeve -- people squeezing toothpaste tubes in the middle. Apparently, his son takes after his mother, and consistently squeezes the middle of the toothpaste tubes. (This of course, always gets his goat.)
I smiled because I know for a fact that Father shares this pet peeve. He and Mother have different ideas of the (more) proper way of squeezing toothpaste tubes. Father lived patiently with Mother deforming the aluminum toothpaste tubes. As we all know, his patience was not in vain. Plastic toothpaste tubes were eventually introduced to the market. He has often cited the new toothpaste tube as a good example of technology finding a solution to a (hard to solve) problem.
I take Father's side on this matter. I personally like my toothpaste tubes squeezed deliberately and methodically from the bottom.
1 comment:
of course i am a roll-it-up-from-the-ender myself. my solution is simpler. i let my press-anywhere family do what they want. when they feel the tube is done, they can open another one, but the instructions are NOT to throw out the old one. only i can do that -- after i have pressed out the last bits a week or so later.
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