... to think you don’t practice your dental hygiene routine at the table?

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Out for a meal with two colleagues, we get to the end of the mains and one woman pulls a little packet of blue and white interdental brushes from her bag and starts going to town right there at the table. She really got in there, even the back teeth, and occasionally stopped to examine the little brush and to wipe it on her dinner napkin.

Husband (who wasn’t there but heard the story as soon as I got home) agrees it’s gross but says it’s no worse than a toothpick which some restaurants go so far as to provide. I however think this spells the end of human civilisation and it also makes me more nauseous the more I think about it.

Totally agree it’s absolutely disgusting behaviour

This was a proper THING when I spent some time in LA. Whole tables using floss and interdental sticks. Hoping it's not going to be adopted on the whole over here

I am obsessed with dental hygiene and even brush my teeth at work during the day- in the toilet. Doing it anywhere else than the bathroom is not something that would occur to me in a million years.

Omg 🤮 Yanbu that’s disgusting

@alonerinla interesting as she’s American! So am I (plot twist!) but I’ve been in the UK for 20 years now and have adapted to the local customs.

Recently I went out fir a Very Naice family meal. DBIL took a £5, folded it up and cleaned his teeth with it.

He later left a £5 on the tip tray (very under the correct amount )

But I'm not entirely sure it was the same one.

That's revolting 🤢

Could she not have done it in the bathroom? Or her own bathroom?

Revolting. You would have been perfectly entitled to telephone the police.

Gross. She should have gone to the bathroom. Said as an American.

It is revolting. Also, who on earth cleans their teeth with back notes? Must have been riddled with germs.

I floss within an inch of my life, every time I eat.

I really don't care who is at the table, I invoke, inter dental brushes, tepees and floss.

I had tonsil cancer three years ago,......following extensive radio and chemo to the head and neck I have little or no saliva, every scrap of food needs to be removed as soon as possible.

Otherwise, plaque forms and rot sets in.

So ask yourself before you judge.

Granted, I am as discreet as possible.

Bree I'm sorry to hear what you have gone through. But would you not be able to walk to the nearest bathroom to do this? Apart from anything else I'd think you'd be more comfortable there, able to wash your brushes, use a mirror to assist, and use the bin for your floss etc.