As I went through my evening routine, I suddenly became grateful for a particular habit and order in my medicine cabinet. I brush my teeth (tooth brush and tooth paste all conveniently right in the middle of the medicine cabinet), floss (which is kept as inconveniently as possible right where I want to put my toothbrush, so that I remember it), use a little mouth wash (left side of the cabinet), take out my contacts (solution and case kept in the right side of the cabinet), and then go to bed (which is not kept in the medicine cabinet, just in case that was unclear).

Tonight I realized that it’s probably a good idea to keep the mouth wash as far from the contact solution as possible. Mixing the two up could be disastrous.