Spinach in the teeth

[sirhugs]

Over on LinkedIn , there is a big debate about whether, in a work context, you tell someone they have spinach in their teeth.

Since almost everything makes me wonder about a Lit angle, I wondered about this...

does it start a fight between a couple, leading to cheating as revenge?

or does it lead to strangers getting friendly (which on Lit leads to sex?)

does it break a barrier between prof and student?

does the spinach wearer need help finding it? Leading to in family closeness, touching, incest? Or similar closeness, but between coworkers?

 

[wickedpen]

Seems like a stretch from the "I have something in my eye." the damsel sighed looking up at the tall stranger, to the "you have something in your teeth?" the curious red head said looking up at him, then reached her petite red fingernail between his pearly white teeth, flicking away the pesto remnant.

It would definitely make a woman stand out as someone, a stranger, who gives someone a helpful bit of information before they go into a meeting or something. There is that angle as well. earn trust and intimacy but telling someone something embarrassing but in order to save them from being embarrassed. That is what intimacy is right? Being able to have someone tell you something is wrong without hurting your feelings.

I guess, if I stretch this is could be that two people get off eating something that gets all over their teeth them kissing and cleaning each others teeth. Not exactly my cup of spinach but maybe someone else...

 

[Carnevil9]

I vaguely remember a scene in a movie where a man and a woman are eating in a restaurant, and the man has something in his teeth. The woman, rather than tell him, tries to show him by opening her mouth and moving her tongue to the spot (in her own mouth) where his spinach bit is. He thinks she is coming on to him and starts making tongue motions back. I don't think it led to sex in that case, but I can imagine how it could. Especially at Lit.

 

[sirhugs]

I vaguely remember a scene in a movie where a man and a woman are eating in a restaurant, and the man has something in his teeth. The woman, rather than tell him, tries to show him by opening her mouth and moving her tongue to the spot (in her own mouth) where his spinach bit is. He thinks she is coming on to him and starts making tongue motions back. I don't think it led to sex in that case, but I can imagine how it could. Especially at Lit.

at Lit, it would.

 

[fuck_jannies]

I tell the person every time. I usually pull the person aside discreetly and lead by saying, "I'm telling you this because if it were me, I'd want to know: Your fly is down."

Or: You have spinach in your teeth.

It always leads to a type of awkward intimacy. No one has ever taken offense at it, but it can be awkward. I like your idea of breaking the tension between a prof and a student. Maybe the student points it out to the professor in office hours before he/she goes out to present in the lecture hall?

 

[sirhugs]

I tell the person every time. I usually pull the person aside discreetly and lead by saying, "I'm telling you this because if it were me, I'd want to know: Your fly is down."

Or: You have spinach in your teeth.

It always leads to a type of awkward intimacy. No one has ever taken offense at it, but it can be awkward. I like your idea of breaking the tension between a prof and a student. Maybe the student points it out to the professor in office hours before he/she goes out to present in the lecture hall?

awkward intimacy could lead to awkward sex...

 

[JJA122]

awkward intimacy could lead to awkward sex...

I can't see that realistically happening, even awkwardly checking each other out, talking from experience. ... ...

 

[sirhugs]

I can't see that realistically happening, even awkwardly checking each other out, talking from experience. ... ...

pretty much all my intimacy has been awkward, so apparently mileage may vary.

and as was debated to death on another thread, realism is not the standard for a Lit story- the reader just needs to be able to suspend their sense of disbelief.

 

[fuck_jannies]

pretty much all my intimacy has been awkward, so apparently mileage may vary.

I agree with this. The intimacy involved with a situation like this is more about shared experience and the embarrassment (or avoidance thereof) than sex, but that intimacy could lead to something romantic.

 

[sirhugs]

I agree with this. The intimacy involved with a situation like this is more about shared experience and the embarrassment (or avoidance thereof) than sex, but that intimacy could lead to something romantic.

but it could also be sudden sex in a restaurant restroom...

 

[wickedpen]

I can see it now, in a nice restaurant with low lights, table clothes, I can see Elaine from Seinfeld squinting, "is there something between your teeth?"

The guy looks uncomfortable but ignores her.

She moves around toward him in one of those half circle leather upholstered booths, private unless the waiter is present, otherwise facing a painting on a wall.

She tries to ignore his otherwise perfectly white and straight teeth. But she cannot let it go as the thought of kissing him with food in his teeth revolted her. Confronted with this fact, she raised her long red fingernail on her extended pinky towards his mouth. The guy is unsure what to do at this point. She is coming at him with her candy apple red talon rising towards his mouth, but also with her low cut blouse, spilling her overly abundant cleavage nearing him. He was clearly conflicted and remained motionless.

With a deft quick motion she holds the bright green lettuce on her nail as she beams with happiness now able to freely kiss him later. However now, only a few inches from him, she sees he is horrified by her picking his teeth.

She thinks it.s over, but wants to save the date.

Her smile turns to soft moan as her same hand slides under the table cloth and up his thigh. Finding him stiff brings her thick lips into a wicked grin as his mouth opens silently.

Her hand easily slips into his zipper and is around his hot hard flesh. She smiles as he groans with her first few strokes. It all happened so fast she glanced around for the wait staff before sliding under the the table and gives him a blow job right there, erasing any thought of her lack of social barriers being problematic..

Maybe even have her tell it to Jerry, recounting a date.

 

[sirhugs]

I...
She tries to ignore his otherwise perfectly white and straight teeth. But she cannot let it go as the thought of kissing him with food in his teeth revolted her. ...

but what if the food is a turn on rather than revolting?