Hi, friends!
It’s Thursday! Almost Friday! The weekend beckons!
Anyways.
Have you learned anything recently which you feel like you should already have known?
I got a pack of those teeth whitening strips because it’s been a few years since I’ve done those. Like over a decade. Anyways, I always thought the process was brush teeth, floss teeth, then rinse and apply teeth whitening strips. You know, because you want them freshly clean so the whitening chemicals stick on better.
Nope. I read instructions last night while waiting the 30 minutes I had the strips on. Turns out you’re not supposed to immediately stick the bleach teeth stickers on after brushing because of increased gum sensitivity. Which makes sense, I’ve just never thought about it.
I felt like this guy whose videos I enjoy and how often he has some variation of “why did I go to college when I didn’t learn anything there.”
Life isn’t a progressively gradual process…it just is.
When all else fails…read the directions.
Om anvisningarna är informativa eller korrekta, förstås.
The killer for me is the instructions are often written in such small type, and I have to go find a magnifying glass.
I remember ruining a couple of home Covid tests due to not paying close enough attention to the requirements for the swabs and vials. Back when they were in short supply that was annoying.
My first 4 boxes of tests were all the same model, so I was like ok I got this (experience for the 1st and 2nd times I had covid). Then when I got covid for the 3rd time back on Christmas Eve, it was an entirely different kind of test and I was like ahhhh fuck ruined one because I thought I understood it and clearly I did not.
I only had the early version of the test done to me once, the one with the long probe that went all the way up to your brain and stayed there for about five hours.
If the person administering that had screwed up, I think I would have done a full Chernobyl meltdown.
Oh man I had several of those because I participated in the Moderna trial and fuck some of those nurses were great, and some of those nurses seemed to be using the brain hook tool for digging a brain out during the Egyptian mummification process. One time I even had a nosebleed from an overeager stabby swiper.
I never learn.
Put it on my gravestone/cremation urn. And put that urn in YouTube’s lobby.
There’s a time to shut up and there’s a time to say something. I finally figured that out.