Dental Floss
Trip Start
Aug 01, 2008
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Trip End
Jun 30, 2010
I have been a fan of dental floss for a long time, and my cavity rate has gone down accordingly since I was a teenager. Since living in Congo, however, I have had occasion to increase my admiration for the slender waxy string. The first time it came in handy was the first week of school, when we had created a welcome banner for the opening of school reception. We didn't have any string around, so I strung floss through the grommets and around the pillars. But more recently, something like twice a month, the kids (or me, I admit) inadvertently pull down the mosquito nets and I have become a pro at quickly re-hanging them with a pull of the floss and a well-coordinated jump off the bed to slip a loop over the hook hanging from the ceiling.

