Semi-Charmed Life

Tried and True versus Shiny and New

I have no idea how this happened but a few days ago, in the middle of the night my roommates comes over and knocks on my door. I open the door and he's holding my toothbrush, which is vibrating like it's fucking possessed with the spirits of every single person that has ever died in that bathroom.

He told me he woke up in the middle of the night when he heard a buzzing sound coming from the bathroom, which is right outside his room. He saw that my toothbrush was vibrating so he turned it off and went back to bed, only to find it buzzing again and this time he thought I was fucking with him.

He came over to my room and told me my toothbrush was going on the fritz and there was no way to shut it off. I took a look and couldn't find anywhere on the toothbrush where I could any type of battery out. My only options were to either let it vibrate randomly like a spaz or throw it out.

The frugal side in me just couldn't bear to toss away a freaking Sonicare toothbrush that I just got less than a year ago, so I wrapped it up in a towel and put it away in a corner. So now it's back to the good old fashioned original toothbrush.

A few days later though, my electric toothbrush is still buzzing!

This is the mosquito that never dies.

The goal here is to call up Sonicare and see if they can freaking get me a new one. If not I'm going to start an angry consumer campaign by writing to The Consumerist and hope my story publicly shames them into offering me a new one. There has to be some kind of warranty on it, right?

I should check . . . or better yet, SLEEP.

Good night!