The Offending Package of Dental Floss

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6,50 Euros!!

Well, there they are.  Three pictures that might say it all, or nothing.  The first is a photo of a package of dental floss.  Yep, dental floss.  I ran out…simple answer, buy more.  It wasn’t that long ago that I spent hours in the grocery store looking for something that was NOT food.  Truly, it took me a couple of hours of scouring every item on every shelf to remember that I was NOT going to find a pharmaceutical item on a grocery shelf.   So, this time I was prepared.  Naturally, this many years later some pharmaceutical items are sold in a wide variety of grocery stores.  But, none the less, I stuck to the old standards and entered a Pharmacy for some items.  In addition to floss I needed a pain killer to arrest this nasty left leg that has not stopped throbbing for over 40 years.  I first asked for aspirin as it is a word I know in French.  And indeed, quelle surprise, I was handed aspirin.   But I quickly realized that I wanted ibuprofen. And with little ado I received what I wanted as the words are the same.  And then the floss…it too was reasonably simple as I know how to discuss “teeth” and again, floss is the same word.

The first picture:  confirmation that the article in question is a package of dental floss

The second picture:  the back side of the same package

The third picture:  confirmation that I paid 6,50 € for  55m of dental floss

YES, you read that right.  ALMOST $9.00 for dental floss.

Now, let’s put this into perspective.  I can buy two bottles of rosé @ 1,50 € and still have 3,50 € left over for a killer bottle of red wine.  Not to mention the abundant amount of fruits and vegetables that are available for that money (meat is much more expensive).

I love to reevaluate priorities.