Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
No matter how many times I bring it up (which, in fact, has only been once) my lovely roommate continues to throw his used dental floss into the toilet. Our wastebasket is only about 18 inches away. Geez.
Now, it seems like common sense to me that you shouldn’t flush dental floss down the toilet. Unlike paper, dental floss isn’t going to dissolve and break down. In fact, its long, stringy and hard-to-break nature makes it seem like the last thing you’d want to put down the tubes. Hair, which is much thinner and more fragile than floss, is often the culprit when it comes to clogs, so imagine what a daily build up of floss might do! Not to mention, I’d hate to think of that floss ending up in the ocean somewhere, wrapping around some poor fish.
Anyway, rather than bring it up again because I hate repeating myself, I decided to send him some links to factual reasons as to why he shouldn’t throw floss down the toilet. Men seem to do better listening to a third-party rather than the women in their lives, even if both sources are saying the same thing.
So I did a Google search, and I guess this is a more common issue than I thought! I found several websites with wives ranting about husbands who throw their floss in the toilet. Really? So is this like a male thing? What gives? Sheesh.
Anyway, I’m emailing him these two links:
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/169538
http://www.hgtvpro.com/hpro/ex_edg_homeowners/article/0,,HPRO_28918_5275186,00.html
As for the title of this blog, this little domestic squabble reminded me of one of my favorite websites/books:
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About
At the end of the day, I know it’s just a little thing and it won’t change how I feel about him. (Which is blind, unbridled hatred, by the way.) 
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