Negative anticipation creates apprehension which can fire your worry mode imagination and nothing soars faster and higher than imagination. A little worry in some instances can be a good thing, prompting one to plan but is absolutely not the case if it is about a dental appointment. Sad, but as I see it, 93.2% of the time, worry is a bigger waste of time than reading this note.
When Marsha finished my periodontal maintenance procedure yesterday without inflicting too much pain and I wasn't required to see the dentist I felt awful about the terrible waste of time I had spent fraught with worry about it. As I walked out, the awful feeling was still with me and had been swollen to a much greater yuck by the $55 charge for the fifteen antagonizing minutes spent with Marsha's pain skilled fingers. And the new toothbrush and small tube of toothpaste they gave me as a parting gift didn't lessen it one iota.
I did mention that I had given some thought about her job and felt a little sorry for her digging around in dirty mouths all day. Told her the only thing I could imagine that might be worse would be working the other end as a gastroenterologist doing colonoscopies all day.
After a little research after I got home I think myself would prefer working on the butt end. Not a one of us has not had to deal with a bunch of ass-holes in our lives at one time or another and in reflection, most encounters weren't all that bad. That, plus the fact that a Dental hygienist's average salary was said to be in the $61,000 range while a gastroenterologist was listed at between $400,000 to $500,000 depending on where they practice is what turned me.
"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble." - Elbert Hubbard
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