Family of Toothbrushes

When I was younger, I always thought that families came in groups of four.  This was because I had only ever seen toothbrush holders with four holes.  I had met large families before, but I didn't believe that they could all use the same bathroom with.  Only groups of four.  If you shared a bathroom with three other people, then you were automatically a family.

Sometimes, less than four people share a bathroom.  In that case, someone usually has an extra toothbrush filling the empty slot, because they were at the store and impulsively bought a new toothbrush because the colors were bright or there was come cool-looking rubber shit on the head that made it look like the teeth-brushing process would transpire much more efficiently and with great ease.  

Sometimes it's fun to sit in the bathroom and look at the toothbrushes in their holes, leaning in all different directions.  Some toothbrushes look stoic and proud, because their base is too large to fit into the hole of the holder, so one must jam the base in until it sort of fits, and then the top is sticking out way too much, so the patriarchal toothbrush towers over the other teethbrushes, imparting his fatherly knowledge about what it's like to have been dropped on the floor, or to have been used accidentally to clean a toilet bowl, or to have a piece of hair stuck in his bristles for three weeks.  

Some toothbrushes look tired and forlorn, like a mother of five who husband left her.  She doesn't wear makeup and her bristles are frayed and sloppy.  My own toothbrush looks like Lazer from the American Gladiators show.  He has a big steroid head and is abnormally shaped for a toothbrush, as if I should be wrapping both hands around the curves and really go at it.  He is also red, white, and blue and has alot of unnecessary padding.   I guess the padding makes him more like the challenger in the show, because Lazer doesn't wear pads really at all; he's already huge.