Christmas was so pleasant this year for my daughters and families and myself. No monkey wrenches as we can usually expect--nope it wa the nicest holiday any of us can remember.
At 10 pm Christmas night, I had finished washing up the dishes and sat down to watch TV for a while and pondered how smoothly the holiday had gone, but a little voice in my head said "But there's still two hours left in this day, ha ha."

So I was sitting there using one of those little floss sticks and just happened to look at my teeth in a mirror. I have the four front teeth capped, and noticed one of the caps was hanging lower than normal. I touched it and it was wobbly, then it fell off in my hand.
Yikes! At least I had captured it--I could have taken a sip of water and swallowed it!
Of course, Monday everything was closed, so I went around gap toothed. Nothing looks as ghastly as a missing front tooth! Tuesday morning my dentist's receptionist said: "We're so booked it'll have to wait till Thursday." I protested I couldn't go around toothless that long and she said, well come in and we'll try to fit you in at 2pm.

It bothers me to look at this office. There was unraked leaves and sweetgum balls all over the grass, plastic cups and trash in the parking spots. The dentist's name plate out front (Frank) had letters missing. The F was gone, the R had the bottom prop missing so it looked like a P, the A and N was missing, but the K was there, so his name read -P--K, and the DDS had only the S hanging sideways.
Going in, one window screen had a hole punched out of it on the top. Another screen had a hole punched out on the bottom.

When a business doesn't take care of its physical plant, it's not a good sign. Then when the dentist was scraping excess cement off around the tooth, the receptionist came in and chastised him for letting a patient come in after she had said NO. She was really harsh with him. I said to him, Why do you put up with that?

Anyway, got the cap back on for how long I don't know, got my toof back, I'm okay for now.

susil