I want write about the process of working out whether I've been ripped off by those who sell dental floss. Recent purchases of dental floss that I've made seem to have run out quicker than earlier purchases of this item. Currently I am using Oral B tape, which ostensibly extends for 25 metres. I am not using dental floss more frequently so it should be lasting as long.
Time seems to go faster as you get older, so maybe this quickening up of using dental floss is based on distorted perceptions and is just apparent and not real.
I could keep all the used bits of floss and painstakingly concatenate and measure them up. On reflection this would seem as impossible as putting together pieces of paper that have been through a shredder.
There is only one way to resolve this - to unravel the floss and assess it against a standard and see if it measures up. So I plan to ask a friend to accompany me to Bruce, lay out the thin white ribbon and see if the measurement on the packaging lies or whether indeed it really lies from one end to the other of the AIS 25 metre pool.
