I have mentioned this before but I'm repeating it. A person who specializes in something can be called a specialist. Then you have people that lobby called lobbyist, bicycle riders called bicyclist and ah, you know how it goes.
Anyway, Tuesday I went to visit a guy that makes huge dents in wallets which allows him to be known as a dentist. Usually only a routine check unless he has his yearly
neighborhood assessment coming up on his mansion in Florida, a Hummer payment or he needs to fill his automobile's gas tank. He is really a nice guy and doesn't bend us over a barrel. He just sits us in a chair and it's a thing that we feel needs to be done.
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 my notes.
When Marsha finished my periodontal maintenance procedure with her usual sadistic flair I felt awful about the terrible waste of time I had spent fraught with worry about it. And another thing, I didn't need a transfusion to replace the bleeding caused by her little sharp tool she gleefully stuck into my gums then pulled it down cleaning my teeth. I might would have needed a transfusion but was able to retain most of the blood by swallowing it.
As I walked out, quite pale from the blood loss, I was immediately turned white as a sheet when I heard that the cost would be over $130.00. That charge covered the long use of the waiting room, the twelve antagonizing minutes spent with Marsha's pain skilled fingers, five minutes with the dentist and the new toothbrush and small tube of toothpaste they gave me as a parting gift.
I did mention to the lady who took my money that most of the folks that I had come in contact with during my visit were all wearing masks, that is all except the one who actually took my money. Go figure.
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"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble." - Elbert Hubbard
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