The Mint that Stings

Packing for a week's vacation and trying to keep stuff light. Lisa goes out to get travel tooth paste and breaks us out of our Colgate rut. It's always some sparkling, "magnum whitener" edition in a weird new dispenser unit. I guess thats the way Proctor and Gamble, et al., test new stuff and whatever sticks they begin to make on a larger scale. It's cool to break out once in a while but I just feel comfortable with that good, ol'-fashioned burning white paste. I kinda wish they still made tooth powder. I am sure some hippie store has some, somewhere.