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?!

I read read just yesterday of someone who tripped while cleaning his teeth and put the toothbrush through his brain. Not sure it's true but it might put the wind up your DH

Exactly @IHopeYouStepOnALegPiece it just felt exciting to open and find the stuff you knew was going to be there. We had nowt wrapped and it was stuffed into dad's baggy old socks (he does have big feet, tbf). I only don't put a toothbrush in to my kid's stockings because they have electric ones which don't need replacing. Maybe I should put a set of new heads in 😆.

"He said no and that he has stabbed himself in 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?"

Honestly, this sounds like part of a plot imagined by a very lazy writer for the movie Final Destination 12...

(Um... "What can we think of that's a creative way to be deadly this time?" "Oh I don't know, maybe a guy's changing an electric head of a toothbrush and somehow...it manages to fly up and hit him in the face and impale him in the eye?" "Yeah yeah, that'll work, that's believable!")

What... you mean 'Whoops, it slipped.... ' ???

I'm an optometrist (35 yrs qualified) and as yet, I've never had someone report an injury due to stabbing themselves in the eye with a toothbrush of any sort.

However, I have had injuries due to....ovens, lego, playmobile, fingernailsxxx, paper, lots of washing tablets, trees, flowers, metal, pencils, tweezers... (actually I've just realised I can think of many!)

Does he think nail clippers are a finger / toe amputation risk too? Has he heard of anyone scalping themselves using a hairbrush? Cutting their head off with an electric shaver?

That’s really uncalled for - it’s absolutely unacceptable for you, a complete stranger, to call my children ‘ungrateful fuckers’. Honestly, what is wrong with this site these days?

I don’t owe you an explanation but FWIW my kids have never expressed a view on toothbrushes in stockings. I was giving my own view of what I would imagine most children’s reaction would be. Disappointment.

This feels like Rachel and her hair-caught-in-the-swings trauma

Does your lizard brain make you eat with your hands rather than a fork or chopsticks?

You are lucky that this trivia is all you have to worry about 🤔

You are lucky this trivia is all you have to worry about, I don’t mean unkindly just have a rethink 🫶

If he’s scared of electric toothbrushes, wait till he hears about water flossers. They can take your head clean right off!

I've stabbed myself in the cheek a few times with my toothbrush.

It's terrible, the head comes off & you don't realise so just stab yourself in the cheek before you notice, kind of thing...

Cheap heads that don't properly fit, that's when it happens to me (I havn't stabbed my eye, yet, though)

My friend who is a nurse told me about someone who “ poked” herself wrong and ended up in A&E , obviously she wasn’t using it on her teeth

I hate to admit it but I know what he means. It’s happened me a couple of times. Taking the head off the body and it suddenly flew off and the pointed bit of the body headed towards my eye. I am definitely very awkward with anything mechanical though.

Such a stupid thing to say. You've no idea what else is going on in the OPs life.

If you're that cack-handed, surely any tool is a potential injury waiting to happen? Pens, spoons, even... a regular toothbrush??

I think your husband is just being a skinflint. He's ok with buying your kids a cheap toothbrush as a present but not an expensive electric one. The "they could put their eye out" claim is bollocks.

Your husband has learning difficulties? Sounds like it.

I've snapped a normal toothbrush while brushing my teeth. Wouldn't recommend.

😂😂😂

So perhaps you're all just ungrateful fuckers?

I'm yet to meet a kid who didn't love a fun toothbrush tbh..

Dental hygienist of 30 years here. I’ve heard some bat shit excuses for not using a toothbrush as recommended but this is a first for me . 🤣

If my husband said something like this, he would never live this down. I would wait until we’re were eating with his family and ask him to pass his plate over so I could cut up his food. When he looked baffled, I would say “You stabbed yourself in the eye with your toothbrush. You know you can’t be trusted to wield cutlery without hurting yourself.” I’d even have some baby cutlery on hand to give him.

(Saves that info in case of a future 'badly ending' relationship.....). Joking, of course...?) xx

Sorry this is funny lol