I will be in conversation with someone at work, then causally use the restroom and while washing my hands I smile. There it is. Some strange green thing stuck in between tooth 11 and 12.
I shake my head and say to myself "Wow that's totally embarrassing." Then I go find my floss that I keep in my desk drawer and make my dentist proud.
In that moment of modification you think to yourself. They will never forget how ghastly I must have looked. You honestly believe that no one has ever had anything else stuck in their teeth and if you someone had walked by they would have video taped it and been an instant youtube star by how silly you looked.
Right, yeah... not really. We are all awkward at many moments of our lives. We say stupid things, do stupid things, wear stupid things. It doesn't matter if we're 2 or 60... life can be tricky and we should never find shame in those awkward smoothie mishaps.
My constant rant to my daughter at the end of the day most people won't really remember or care about having green kale stuck in your teeth. This world is so distracting and most of thing things we think are important really aren't.
So next time you see someone who has kale stuck in their teeth, smile and politely say 'hey you have something in your teeth and I want you to know because it happens to me all the time and I always like when people tell me.'
Most people will appreciate your honestly, some may still be embarrassed but overall I have found people can laugh about it and shake it off... kind of like a smoothie.
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