About a month ago I jokingly sent my husband via social media (our favorite means of communicating when we are sitting right next to each other) an ad for mouth tape that I truly thought was a joke. My side comment: “there is more than one way to get your wife to be quiet…bahahaha.”
It turns out that this is an actual product that is selling like crazy. I found this out from two of my sons in separate conversations. Apparently it is designed to stop you from sleeping with your mouth open, eliminating snoring, dry mouth and morning headaches caused by oxygen deprivation. One of my sons bought some and said it is a complete game changer. Another son in a later conversation said he was using scotch tape because it was cheaper, but that it worked like a charm.
I’m STILL laughing from these conversations. I just can’t help it. The visual of my sons’ mouths taped shut is just too funny.
I’m also thinking how handy this would have come in when all our kids were younger, had it been socially acceptable back then to tape your child’s mouth shut.
GAME CHANGER:
Church
School
Homework Time
Any old time you maybe need a little quiet and it’s too soon to put them to bed.
I can literally picture myself back in the day in a sing-song Mary Poppins voice: “It’s time to tape your mouth shut children!” Handing out mouth tape like it’s a reward.
OMG! I’m dying writing this.
The world has gotten so funny.
Imagine the possibilities when you are in an argument with someone. If you feel like you are going to lose…would it be rude to hand someone mouth tape? I mean isn’t that nicer than actually saying “shut up”? Or you could just put it on your own lips, ending the conversation.
It could be a way to stop gossiping, taking ‘my lips are sealed’ to a whole new level.
I imagine myself putting tape on my mouth on airplane trips. While typically not an open mouth sleeper, for some reason whenever I doze on airplanes my mouth falls open the SECOND I close my eyes and this weird noise comes out of my throat. It’s NOT snoring. I’m pretty sure it’s airplane vibrations coming out of my mouth. An added bonus would be that I make it completely clear that I don’t want to talk to the person next to me. Maybe I would politely offer some to the person next to me like I would a piece of gum: “Mouth tape?”
If you start seeing people walking around during the day with mouth tape on, you will know that this post went viral and a whole new type of personality has come out of the closet: those who just don’t identify with talking and have finally found a way to politely express it to the world.
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