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Post by kelso on Nov 18, 2014 7:37:15 GMT
If my memory serves me right, you were due a visit to the dentist yesterday. How are you after that? I hope that it didn't make too much of a dent in your wallet.  Is it true that you have been loading up on carbs for your role on Saturday? Bob |
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Post by dennisn on Nov 18, 2014 9:15:23 GMT
Yesterday was a nightmare, Bob, so no difference there! My right arm twitches (well spasms, more like) violently throughout even though I grab my right wrist and try to hold it down - his (dentist) predecessor (I've been going there for over forty years, so I've had more dentists than I care to remember) told me it was OK - "if it was your left arm it would be a heart attack, but the right arm isn't". Could you by any chance explain the logic behind him charging me £150 for taking a tooth but keeping it to give to the tooth fairy? Does he make a profit in these inflationary days? I have to train up each new dentist. I don't want pleasant chat/discussion. Just about four sentences - "Here's the injection" "Injections finished" "Here comes the drill" "Drill finished" (these last two amended for extractions to "Bit of pushing about now" "That's out now"). The new dentists always ask how I am and I always answer I'll be better tomorrow - sort of shuts them up. I can't be doing carbs for Saturday - it's soup for a week or two now, varied by a lovely sea bass and mash on Thursday and cauliflower cheese and mash on Friday. I suppose the mash is carbs though. But I don't need loadsa carbs for doing Santa - I do it sitting down and they come to me, I don't have a sledge or anything hard work like that. And I have the same suit, beard and stuff every year. British Legion Christmas Fayre. The table immediately behind me was Vera's contribution - she usually fills two or three tables with home bakes and brings in about £200.  |
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Post by kelso on Nov 18, 2014 13:38:09 GMT
Wow, £150! I'm sure I only paid £49 when I had a tooth removed earlier in the year and I thought that was expensive. I'm Impressed by your get up. You look just like the real thing. I'm involved in a similar exercise the Saturday after next - not playing Santa, we get the man himself - my job is to build the grotto. Good luck to you and Vera for a successful event on Saturday.
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Post by dennisn on Nov 18, 2014 18:55:31 GMT
The £150 (the same job on 9th October, same type (bottom tiger) other side tooth was £170) was for extraction and adding a replacement tooth in the hole in my plastic set. I think the last extraction I had on its own was £60 or £70. Remember, you're in the land of God and I'm dahn sarf. When I started this latest business, I asked him to take out the last three and be done with it, but he declined - he said the ones left there would anchor the plastic set - well, chewing pulled the flipping anchor up! And the plastic teeth are hopeless at eating stuff, anyway.
There's very little more he can get out of me now though - I have just one tooth left and that's a molar, which was crowned years ago and seems to be going on for ever.
Tragedy is that tonight it's footie and I can't have crisps and beer, crisps don't go well with socket holes - oops, just realised it's us and them, England v Scotland. I don't mind who wins so long as it's a good game.
By the way, that beard is a nightmare, curly nylon stuff that gets in my mouth and drives me mad - I have to occasionally turn my head away from the little darlings and open it up with my fingers for a decent breath!
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Is it true that you have been loading up on carbs for your role on Saturday?
