“ow”
Dr.Louie: “Are you ok?”
Me: “Yeah.”
Dr.Louie: “You want more freezing?”
Me: “Let’s see how it goes.”
Dr.Louie: “OK”
whhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrriiiiirrrrrrr “ow”
Dr.Louie: “Let’s get more freezing.”
Me: “You always end up doing that.”
Dr.Louie: “So I see. I put in one tube. Last time we gave you three tubes.”
Me: “Sounds about right”
[…]
Dr.Louie: “You can sit in the chair for a while if you want.”
Me: “I think I”m OK”.
Dr.Louie: “The tooth will be tender for a few days. It needs to recover.”
Me: “That happened with the last one. No problem.”
Dr.Louie: “All that freezing will take a long time to go away. And don’t eat anything for a while.
Me: “I’m painting the rest of the afternoon, so that won’t be a problem.”
Dr.Louie: “Painting? Your house?”
Me: “Lawn sign. I do airbrushing. It’s out in a warehouse north of town”
Dr.Louie: “Airbrushing like on cars and motorcycle tanks?”
Me: “Yup. That’s what I do.”
Dr. Louie: “I’ve always wanted to get my car painted with that. But it’s so expensive.”
Me: “About like dentistry.”
Dr. Louie: “ha ha”
Me:
Dr.Louie: “Let me see you to the front …
Dr.Luoie: “Catherine needs another appointment”
Receptionist: “We have openings next week.”
Me: “Maybe in October”
Dr.Louie: “That sounds good. You take care now.. thankyou.”
Me: “you too.”
Dr.Louie: “Bye now”
Me: “Thanks”
Receptionist: “So, how would you like to pay?”
Me: “Sadist”
Wrong!
“What would the Dr like painted: can we discuss this tomorrow?
Just a suggestion …
Cheers
JMH
Bring in some pebbles next time, and put them on the counter when she asks.
Legal currency 4000 years ago maybe?? .. could qualify for an ancient artifact and be worth tons!
A few years ago I cracked off half a bicuspid. The dentist took an impression and told me to come back later for a fake tooth. I arrived ten minutes early — I knew my way through the mall this time. When I walked in I could tell that he been waiting for quite a while, and that he really meant business.
We got settled, he took a deep breath — a little too deep — and then he hunkered down over my mouth and commenced to raking some shrieking micro belt-sander across my tooth, in order to strip the enamel.
That’s when the fun started. Just as I began scanning the walls for a diploma, he grabbed something that looked like a riding crop, and he blasted a high-pressure stream of cold air at that now transluscent stump of tooth, in order to dry it, so that the fake tooth could be….
I was just a absolute supernova of pain, nothing else. My head was full of sparks, Carmen Miranda was singing, and my eyes were struggling as hard to leave my head as my face was grimacing to keep them…
I still see that dentist’s face in every stranger I meet.
From now on, when a dentist asks if I want a needle, I just say “Yes please — and thank you.”
OK two things – what’s with dentists trying to have a conversation when they have their hands and a variety of tools stuffed in your mouth – like you can answer!! Secondly, I don’t know about where you live – but we now have something called “sedation” dentistry in Calgary! I’m thinking this is the way to go – knock me out and wake me up when it’s all over – and that’s just for a cleaning!!! And it really does add insult to injury that we actually have to pay our own good money for this.
Brings back memories of Steve Martin’s character in Little Shop of Horrors.
But we all know how satisfying that turned out.
OT
Does anyone else have trouble with “Remember personal info?” over at the Shotgun?
Kate my brother is a plumber and has been bartering his dental bills for years. Give it a try.
Hell, if you can find a good plumber, make him your dentist too.
It just takes pliers, a boot-heel, and a lot o’ hollerin’.
Here’s a little song from the top 40 on many country stations right now that sums it up perfectly – try the third verse
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