Why Flossing with Braces is the Worst Thing Ever

Now I recently had someone tell me that when the situation is dire, they floss with their hair.
I can only imagine what kind of dire situation I would have to be in to do that, and it the kind of situation that involves a desert island, no other humans, and a gum infection.

Why would I ever clean my pearly whites with a strand of  biomaterial that has been on my person for who knows how many years? Not to mention its been bleached and bleached and re-bleached, and dyed. That probably makes it cleaner, but its still growing out of your body, and as far as I'm concerned, nothing that is growing out of your body is, at any given time, completely 100% clean.

But anyway, the conversation reminded me that I haven't really flossed my teeth in two and half years, and you know why?
The answer to all my mouth problems, BRACES.

These chains that enslave me stop me from doing just about anything.

In the beginning, before I learned my lesson, I tried to be a good little girl, and floss. But oh ho ho, did I learn.

I can, pretty easily, floss the bottom 13% of the gap between my teeth. And guess where all the stuff is that you need to floss? the top 87%.

Its like i literally have to sew. To do it. It's like I have to string it between wires and above and below brackets to floss for real.
(I would never sew those two colors of material together with that color of thread. I don't make fox paws like that.)

But its not just like sewing,

There is a small, very very small space between the two brackets, below the wire. Its relatively (extremely) hard to get a limp string through the space, and I don't always have the kind of time it takes.

So, as a result, I am never able to floss my teeth (but do not be alarmed, there are other ways of cleaning your teeth.

NOT with your hair.)

-Michelle

P.S. I got a left handed mouse instead of a touch pad. Can you tell?
P.P.S. Yes, I did get pink tips in my hair. I try hard to keep everything accurate, as you can see.