Despite having teeth that look awesome, I've had dental issues since I was a kid with crooked teeth. I had braces for 4.5 years and ended up with periodontal disease and got the bad news as a grad student that I had better take care of my teeth or lose them someday. I chose the former option.
I like the Water Pic, but I always floss my teeth. Always, every day, without exception. I won't go to sleep without flossing. I use a nighttime toothpaste substitute with extra Floride and also an electric toothbrush. So, yeah, I'd a bit of a weirdo about my teeth, but it has had a positive impact.
So in the end, do whatever works for you, Just DO! Way too many people do nothing and they focus on the teeth, not the gums, which should never be overlooked!
Frankly, I think my fellow forum members have been extremely delicate with you. You agreed to meet a guy with whom you have had previous issues. You buy him clothes because you think he is handsome. You believe that some new duds are just what he needs to make this a perfect evening for you. He spins and twirls in his new clothes and you break out the credit card. Now dressed appropriately to go to a "dive bar", you are surprised that he selects out the only black TV reality celebrity there to hook him up with cocaine. The reality star, then warns you against guys like this and their penchant to be users, and then suddenly Mr. Survivor has a sufficient supply of cocaine to satisfy your guests desire. A quick trip home leads to more shopping, this time for men for a party. Once you have selected out your guests, you add another less attractive guest so you will not feel out of place with all the pretty people. Problem is, your "normal" friend is a closeted party freak and gets all into the well of cocaine and associated alcohol and of course the pretty boys. The house starts to get a bit rambunctious. That comes as a surprise to you despite inviting a large number of men you do not know to your home at 11:45 PM to have a party. Your boorish friend/fb and your initial guest make the party a fiasco and people start to leave. One can only wonder what they had to do bad enough to frighten off people who had come out to party at a stranger's house and who had arrived and what sounds to be an opulent house filled with hot men and drugs. Even though your party is quickly failing, you, ever the good host, wish the guests well as they leave, presumably with a nice parting gift, or perhaps not. You then lock yourself in your bedroom breathing heavily as the remnants of the party slowly crumble until there is one, guest left, drunk drugged out and in a new set of clothing, who decides he wants to cuddle. Petulantly, you refuse and he begs. That I would guess is when you really start to get off on all of this. He heads to the guest bedroom and stays there. Surprisingly, you stay in your room rather than forgivingly cuddling him through his drug and alcohol fueled night sweats, and in the morning, you are surprised the hung over guest is sleeping late and confused about the events of the night before. Fortunately you are saved by an unexpected call from yet another acquaintance.
Your question is then, how much did the first guest deserve to be paid for all of this.
In a later post, you confess to realizing that you could have stopped this at any point but choose not to do so because, hey he looks so cute in those new clothes and you want him to like you as much as the Academy likes Sally Field. That would be "Really like,... Really really like".
What strikes me as the most interesting touches to all this are the responses to your post. One response from someone who can only see potential in this man, suggests you mentor this young man. I am not sure what you would be mentoring him about but the preposterousness of that suggestion is surpassed by your response which states that you have no need to mentor this young man as you already have two other young men you are paying a total of $300000 a year to work on investments and real estate development. Perhaps these gentlemen are a wise investment but the way you phrased it, it left me wondering.
In conclusion, you give him $300 and thank him for playing your game. He gets to keep the wardrobe and presumably the cocaine hook up with the realty star. After all this, frankly, to me you come off as foolish, insecure and surprisingly cheap. I would agree with you, it was not your finest moment. Learn something from this and be better. It seems you have the skills to make an opulent life, use them to make it one in which you are not lying face down on a bed wearing a poodle skirt and alternately beating your legs into the mattress like Gidget..
Just reading your post gave me heart palpitations - my Saturday night consisted of sitting in front of the TV with a pot of macaroni and cheese. The disaster for me was not soaking the pot in the sink and now having to scrub really heard this morning,
Also an excellent choice, and it and Laphroaig are neighbors on Islay. A little farther down the road is Ardbeg, another delightful peaty, smoking elixir.
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