I know there are a lot of people out there who get annoyed over toothpaste. I’m one of them. Fortunately, I didn’t marry someone who squeezes the middle of the tube, otherwise my annoyance would turn to irritability very quickly.

You see I used to buy Crest toothpaste. But I quickly encountered a problem. Most tubes of crest have a twist on/twist off cap. And when you have a cap that comes on and off of the toothpaste, it requires the user to manually put the cap back on after use. This simply wasn’t happening in my home. After a while, I told Luis I would only allow Colgate in our home, because I knew that most tubes of Colgate have a snap cap that does not come off of the tube.

I thought this would fix the problem, but it didn’t. You see, even with the snap cap, it requires the user to actually snap the cap back to its closed position. If the user does not do this, the cap is useless. The result is a nasty buildup of dry toothpaste at the opening of the tube. Gross.

So last week I told Luis (in a very nice manner) that from now on, he would need to buy 2 different kinds of toothpastes. One for him and one for me. You see, this way, he could do whatever he wanted to his tube and I would have my tube the way I wanted it. Luis, being the wonderful husband that he is, complied. So he came home with 2 tubes similar to this:

(Except it was adult, not children’s, toothpaste)

And now, after all of that effort, guess who has decided to start closing the cap to his toothpaste? Yep, you guessed it. Mr. Luis himself.