I can’t believe I’m asking this!

[flowerbiithc]

I asked my partner for some more ideas for stocking fillers for our 8 & 9 year olds. He mentioned new toothbrushes. I said oh actually I was thinking of getting them electric ones so we just change the heads. He said no and that he has stabbed hhimselfin the face by his eye when the head has came off the toothbrush of his electric one. I was bewildered and said how on earth does that even happen?! He’s the processed to say I’m argumentative and if I buy the kids one and they stab themselves in the eye when the head comes off it’s all my fault. In my 36 years of life and using one. That has never happened. Am I right in thinking WTF?!

This is why we need the laughing reaction! This is so insanely wonderful from your husband!

Oh man I’ve just seen someone else wrote the same thing. Whoops! But I stand by it! 🤣

Was alcohol involved in the toothbrushgate near fatality? It sounds like he has PTSD and needs therapy 🤦‍♀️

Im very accident prone, I am surprised I still have 10 whole fingers and occasionally I like to have a drink but always brush my teeth before bed and the worst I have done is either drop the toothbrush or mess up the timing of switching it on and so the toothpaste goes flying around the room.

"he has stabbed hhimself in the face by his eye when the head has came off the toothbrush of his electric one"

Easily done. I understand King Harold did a very similar thing whilst twiddling an arrow, showing off to his mates.

Here's an idea for a stocking filler for your DH, just give MN a moment.

Are you banned from having a garden rake because one jumped up and hit him in the face once? From having a hosepipe because one squirted him in the mush when he picked it up and looked straight at it after turning the tap on? From having a wooden framed bed because it bashed his knee when he walked straight into it? Is the toilet seat lid stuffed under the stairs because of an unfortunate near-circumcision event?

He's either Sideshow Bob in the bathroom or maybe dyspraxic. Assuming your kids aren't mini-Bobs in any way, I think they will probably be alright. But you could buy him some safety goggles for next time he goes into the bathroom.

WTF. Apart from just going ahead and getting them the toothbrushes, I also think your DH needs to demonstrate to you how he brushes his teeth because he must be doing something very wrong if he stabbed himself in the eye. Where is he brushing? Even Paddington Bear managed better than that, although he did stick it in his ear!

Not tooth brush but my daughter did manage to shave off part of her eyebrow shaving her legs 😂😂🫣

He us being absolutely ridiculous! And a c*nt!

Surely everyone considers the cost /upkeep of a guide dog when purchasing an electric toothbrush?
The man's a knob..

I have bitten my own finger inside a sandwich before and even I have managed not to sustain any injuries from electric toothbrushes.

I'm quite risk averse with the DC, but it never occured to me to worry about this! 😅

This! My six year old’s favourite birthday present was her Spider-Man electric toothbrush.

In my many years of using an electric toothbrush, I can honestly say that I’ve never stabbed myself in the eye.

Get the toothbrush!

I'm pushing 50 and have had an electric toothbrush since my late teens. I have never stabbed myself with it.

Thanks flowerbiithc you have made my evening.
DH also thinks YANBU.

Both my children use electric toothbrushes. As recommended by dentists! No lost eyes over here. I actually struggle to pull the heads off when replacing them. And I’m actually trying!! Only thing I can think is your husband most stupidly did not have the head on securely to begin with. Perhaps you should suggest he watch some YouTube tutorials on proper use of electric toothbrushes.

im also sure if you google how many eye losses have happened from these dangerous contraptions you’ll find the odds in your children’s favour.

I’m a huge worrier and over thinker in general but it has never occurred to me that electric toothbrushes are dangerous! My dc have them and no mishaps so far!

A toothbrush for a gift?!

Honestly I gave myself a bit of a black eye with a standard toothbrush a few years ago. I was in a sort of panic rush having got home in the evening and realised pretty late I had a work do in the evening. For a reason I still don't understand I was brushing my teeth and tried to pull my dress with quite a tight neckline over my head with my toothbrush still in my mouth ... the toothbrush sort of bent down with the dress and they sprang back up and hit me in the eye.

However, I'm chronically clumbsy....

I mean, my DD could, but she is incredibly clumsy and mal-coordinated, plus she gets very distracted, so sometimes she just kind of aims her (electric) toothbrush in the general direction of her face and misses her mouth, but the worst that has happened is toothpaste in the eye, and that would have happened with a manual brush!

(She gets it from me, alas. I have fellow feeling with the pp who got themselves in the eye with the water flosser. Sigh.)

It’s a part of a stocking filler. I like to do useful things instead of all mindless crap

I've actually nc for this because this name feels more appropriate, but I've actually stabbed myself in the face with a normal Toothbrush while brushing too hard too fast in a rush.

So I sympathise with him, but I also don't think either of us should be admitting this in public.

Just rtft and realised I am not alone. Its good to find my people.

#IWantTheLaughReactionBack

….I think we need a diagram.

How did he manage it?

I bet you anything that, during the Eye-Stabberizing Incident, he was massively distracted by something (be it his own thoughts or something that was happening in the house at the time) and he wasn't paying attention like he should - or his mind wandered/drifted off - and he moved the toothbrush in the general direction of his mouth (intending to insert it into the proper orifice and brush with it) and instead - while completely distracted and paying zero attention to what he was doing - jammed it into his eye! (And he's saying "the head flew off!!!!" in order to make it seem less like he was being a complete fool at the time, lol. Blame it on "mechanical failure"!)

Either that, or he was distracted/not paying attention (see above) and accidentally pressed the "detach toothbrush head" button on the toothbrush and it flew off and hit him in the face XD

Source: I have done the first situation - not with a toothbrush per se, but I was lifting a cup with a straw towards my mouth to drink from it, but I was reading a book while I was eating - and I jammed the straw literally straight into one of my nostrils instead XD

Your DH is being ludicrous XD