This Is This

A very cheap pun for the title, but bear with me.

On Sunday I made the world’s best French toast. Reviews will no doubt be posted here later, but there is talk of a Legion d’Honneur. I can say this without getting all big-headed because the award isn’t for me, but for the work that went into the French toast. I’m just saying - I may be in line for a toastie.

So anyway, rewind to Saturday when I was in Boots Chemist (non-Brit readers: big drugstore).

Actually, re-rewind* - on Friday I went to the dentist who told me about the recent advances in mouthwash, recommending a brand which heralded a breakthrough in dental science. She also recommended a softer toothbrush, and as we know, you don’t argue with a dentist. Ever. Not before, not during, not after. They know what’s best. You just stare down at the floor and open wide. Not easy to do if you think about it.

Back ahead to Saturday and I was in Boots, buying toothpaste listening to some random in-store announcement about double loyalty points or something. The voice stopped and the speakers piped through Tempted, by Squeeze.

I recognised it straight away - the sang-froid of the first long chord on the organ and the laidback bass licks. I picked up the mouthwash and looked to my remaining item on the shelf above when the lyrics kicked in.

“I bought a toothbrush, some toothpaste, a flannel for my face…”

My initial problem is that I don’t know if I can claim the coincidence. The fact that I was looking for a toothbrush at the exact moment Glenn Tilbrook sang that line may be of no matter.

What if Boots FM played nothing but songs about toiletries? I didn’t hang around to find out, but what if the next song was off the Hairspray soundtrack? Or something by Shampoo? Or Cream? Or Band Aid?

I have to be more selective with my coincidences, since they seem to be coming in so thick and fast at the moment.

But - it is a coincidence is that Wendy came up with the title of this post with a joke on Friday and I mentioned her in a post which went live yesterday but was written last week.

So

1. I am standing one foot away from toothpaste, actively buying toothpaste, when a song comes on at random, the opening line of which (ie - I didn’t hear it and then subliminally drift over tothe dental section) starts “I bought some toothpaste…”

2. This is coincidental.

3. Coincidental has the word “dental” in it

4. Friend sends me a text on Friday with the word “Coinci-dental” as a tooth pun because she knows I’m going to the dentist.

5. I write post on here about the same friend before any of this happens, when I rarely post about my friends out of respect for their privacy (unless they have blogs in which case they are fair game).

Actually, yes. I’m claiming it.

* “the crowd say bo, selector”
What can I say? I am weak. Seriously though, who saw that coming?

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