Question:
So there I am speeding my ass off trying to get to work at a decent
time after my dentist appointment where I got drilled mercilessly by
my usually gentle dentist. In the far right lane is a sheriff.
Sheriffs don't give speeding tickets, I mistakenly think to myself as
I zoom past him and everyone else on that stretch of 580-East heading
toward Pleasanton.
Answer:
I know this sounds like a total lie, but my dentist is straight-edge.
He doesn't give novacaine or laughing gas in the normal course of
events. This is what I love about him. He just drills really slowly
with a special drill that doesn't make a lot of noise and vibration,
so it truly is not even necessary to be anaesthatized with him
(usually). On this particular day the low-noise/vibration wonder drill
was out of commission and the tooth he was drilling was really close
to a nerve. So it took him even longer than usual because I kept
wincing and flinching and squirming, etc., due to the fact that I was
totally unsedated.
But regardless of all that, yes, what I did was totally illegal and I
am guilty as charged. I did the crime and I'll do the time: A saturday
of traffic school and a donation to my fair city's revenue coffers.
Yes, it is.......unless you get too much and end up "meeting all those
people whom the dentist forgot and left 'up there.' " That happened to me
once, and in my mind I promised all those people that I would send the
dentist back to get them. My current and now longtime dentist knows exactly
how much nitrous to give me, and he also supplies his patients with a radio
with headphones while he does the work.
