I can’t believe I’m asking this!

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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?!

If anyone was going to do this it would be my DB.
Either through utter curiosity or stupidity, he would 100% be the person to do this and I can confirm he has never added this to his LONG list of utterly ridiculous injuries.

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This gets funnier the more I think about it. Initially, it's just a way of explaining the toothbrush going near the eye. But on further examination, the brush heads are shaped so that a contact lens could feasibly be placed in the dip, and brought towards the eye... the mistake would be to switch the brush on at the crucial moment 😆

Same here!

This post did not go in the direction I initially thought it would go! 😂

Toothbrushes for presents? Is this a joke? Just in case it isn't, this is an awful awful idea.

Legit they make kids paediatric ones that you don’t even need to replace the heads until they are older -

if your hubby has poor toothbrushing ability that’s a him problem.

I got some electric toothbrush for mydcs when they were about that age. Theyre now young adults and the heads have never come off flying and hit them (never mind in the eye).
I have no idea how your dh managed that 😵‍💫😵‍💫

I've got essential tremor and let me tell you, I've managed to put the toothpaste in my nostrils or eye several times 😂

My toothbrush has been dropped, chucked, bounced, you name it, and the head still hasn't ever fallen off.

Sounds more like he doesn't know how to put the head on properly or clean his teeth properly, both a bit worrying.

This made my night! 🤣🤣🤣

I'm sorry, but who on EARTH puts toothbrushes in kids' stockings? They would think they must have been very naughty indeed to be punished with such a non-present.

My dentist, who has won numerous awards for his work, says electric toothbrushes are way better than manual ones. I haven't had to see the hygienist for many years as he always says my teeth are very clean.

always use them and if you do not put them together right, they do not work ,

Why not? And why would they think they had been naughty?

We've put toothbrushes in stockings, our own and the kids' ones. There were plenty of other fun things too. No issues.

My MIL once gave each of us a completely gold coloured toothbrush one Christmas.

Using an electric toothbrush since the 1980’s not stabbed myself.

Why did you marry Mr Bean?

I mean, who nearly pops out an eyeball in an electric toothbrush freak event?!

Would love to hear of any of his other traumatising comedy mishaps.

Stockings and presents in general do not always have to be toys. Fun new toothbrushes are a good idea for a stocking.

He probably saw an item on the news about a young man who got the tip of his nose sliced off in a freak accident involving a picture hung over stairs. This might be 30 years ago, but I have never forgotten it!

I am trying to imagine how drunk I would need to be to accidently stab myself in the eye with a toothbrush. I have been drunk, but never that drunk😂

I have never managed to get it on my nose, let alone my eyes. What was he on when it happened?

I would put stuff like this in too. Practical things but eith a cute design or character. More things to open. It's the opening with stocking fillers rather than the gift that is the fun really.

Does your partner also have an issue with forks? Pencils? Kebab sticks? I hope he was never subjected to a pair of compasses at school. Apparently those bad boys can take your eye out!

This has happened to my oh before. It was when he bought heads from Amazon and they were fake (he didn’t know) it came off while he was brushing and stabbed his cheek and made it bleed.
i bet that happened to your oh! Just tell him you’ll always buy the heads from Superdrug or boots and they’ll be fine

I think he needs to get over this fear but having said that he has unknowingly given voice to a secret fear I have. I mean, it’s pointy and it’s metal and it comes within six inches of your eyes, I can see why my lizard brain fears it 🤣

That literally makes no sense. Unless you were trying to brush in the pitch dark wearing mittens and you literally didn't know the location of your own mouth?!

We always had a cheap manual toothbrush in our stockings (late 80s). Sponge, toothbrush, bubble bath, probably a flannel too. And a big 10p at the bottom next to an old satsuma.

My parents did, we always had a stocking of small fun things, bubble gum, stickers, mouldable soap...It was fantastic. we never felt naughty and loved that it was our favourite colour or character. I still remember the year I got a Rugrats one and bubblegum toothpaste (which we were never allowed).

Just because your kids are ungrateful fuckers doesn't mean all of them are.