Metal Mouth Message Board

I've finally reached the point where I have enough courage to venture out and eat in public and I have just one question: why is it that people you know just happen to pass by your table to stop to chat just after you take that last bite and are trying to surriptiously dig the remnents of the meal out of your teeth?

Also thought I'd pass along the fact that I learned last night that it is possible to saw a piece of raw tuna into smaller pieces with a chop stick!

Happy eating!

Lovely image there - and I was so proud of managing to rip a samosa into bite size pieces...no utensils at hand....but I think you definitely win!!

HA Kimber, I've noticed that too and HATE it. Its like, 'excuse me while I get this big stringy piece of meat out of my teeth, then I'll talk if you insist on interrupting my meal'

Ha ha!!

Braces haven't stopped me eating out, I just make sure I know where the toilets are and get my money's worth!

I have pretty much learned to talk with my lips covering my mouth. Then if someone cracks a joke I put my hand over my mouth.

I don't go out with anyone that I want to impress much and I eat alot more than I talk.

Welcome back, meryaten.

I attended a focus group meeting last night and guess what? They had pizza on the table. It looked and smelt so divine....drool. But I resisted because with my luck bits would have become tangled everywhere and I would have had to excuse myself, etc. in the middle of what was quite an interesting discussion anyway.

Ha! Too funny. I guess we've all perfected our water swoosh and teeth-cleaning tongue techniques. But, you're right, why do people always insist on talking to you when you've got a half-pound of mush stuck in your grill?

I guess we all experience the same )

My colleagues tend to say something like "oh I have not seen your braces before - please show me" - and that in the middle of me having my Salad!!!!!

What do they think - can't they ask after I have just brushed them?

I was at a business lunch, excused myself to go to the ladie's room to swish, and a couple of the other ladies decided they need to go also! There went my private swishing and picking! Uncomfortable situation.