True Story

[xSilverPhinx]

I thought we could share unlikely, shocking or just plain weird experiences with each other. 

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Dentists, right? Awful experiences...Waiting at the dentist's now I remembered this one time when I was 8 or 9 and was getting one of my molars drilled. The anesthesia process in itself was worthy of a soap opera plot (I could be a real drama queen when I wanted to ) but it was when he put that high-pitched drill in my mouth that things took a turn for the worse. I abruptly turned my head to the side and the drill cut the inside of my lip. I just remember the blood gushing from my mouth as if Tarantino was directing that moment in my life.

Long story short, I had to go under general anesthesia to get my cavity filled. My parents weren't too pleased.

[Dark Lightning]

The last time I went to the dentist, they cranked my mouth open and did the cleaning. It was just plain brutal. The time before wasn't quite as bad, but I'm looking for a new dentist.

[No one]

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE!

This is going back several years. I was sitting in a local restaurant, the server comes to the table and tells me that the has been paid for. I am perplexed. What do you mean the meal is paid for? She points out the window at a slender man. She tells me that this guy used to be some high priced, wheeling and dealing attorney. He was also apparently a huge fucking asshat to boot. Then this guy had an experience that completely revamped his life. Now, once a year, he visits the restaurant, and pays for a random table's meal, and leaves.

I was looking for the cameras. I thought I had to be on some sort of gag show. This can't be real. But it was.

[xSilverPhinx]

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE!

This is going back several years. I was sitting in a local restaurant, the server comes to the table and tells me that the has been paid for. I am perplexed. What do you mean the meal is paid for? She points out the window at a slender man. She tells me that this guy used to be some high priced, wheeling and dealing attorney. He was also apparently a huge fucking asshat to boot. Then this guy had an experience that completely revamped his life. Now, once a year, he visits the restaurant, and pays for a random table's meal, and leaves.

I was looking for the cameras. I thought I had to be on some sort of gag show. This can't be real. But it was.

Perhaps when asked who he would pay for that day he said, "I pay for no one!"

[xSilverPhinx]

The last time I went to the dentist, they cranked my mouth open and did the cleaning. It was just plain brutal. The time before wasn't quite as bad, but I'm looking for a new dentist.

Yikes!

Slightly reminds me of the dentist who basically shoved her breasts onto the headpiece of the chair as she worked on my teeth. It is not pleasant having breasts pressed against your cheek while having your teeth drilled...

It was a one time thing.

[Anne D.]

xSSp, I feel for you with your early-life dental trauma. My teeth were messed up when I was little from a freak swingset accident, and I had numerous visits to a dentist who seemed totally sadistic to me as a kid but maybe was just a regular dentist. Hard to tell looking back, but I do remember him wheeling over this tray of what looked to me like torture instruments, me looking at it and crying, and him laughing hysterically, so I'm thinking at best he didn't have the greatest bedside manner.

Great idea for a thread. I wish I had a good true story to tell but I don't!

[Bad Penny II]

The last time I went to the dentist, they cranked my mouth open and did the cleaning. It was just plain brutal. The time before wasn't quite as bad, but I'm looking for a new dentist.

Yikes!

Slightly reminds me of the dentist who basically shoved her breasts onto the headpiece of the chair as she worked on my teeth. It is not pleasant having breasts pressed against your cheek while having your teeth drilled...

It was a one time thing.

I'm waiting for Tank to take you to task for this. 

The time before my last dentist visit... I was getting a scraping, not the most funnest thing.  I was coping by doing minimal shallow breathing, reaching a state of not really be present, it's a technique Pudding taught me, most puddings don't even bother being sentient most of the time.  I did it with such success I think the dentist thought I was dead, so she says ARE YOU ALRIGHT??? Yes, thanks for asking, totally ruined my state of equanimity.

[Anne D.]

Bad Penny, while you're waiting for Tank to take XSSph to task, would you be willing to grant me an implement? Nothing so grand as a spoon seeing as I don't have nearly enough posts. But seeing as I've been hanging around a good while, what about about a silver dentist's tooth scraper?

[Buddy]

It is not pleasant having breasts pressed against your cheek while having your teeth drilled...

Says you

[hermes2015]

It is not pleasant having breasts pressed against your cheek while having your teeth drilled...

Says you

I knew that was coming.

[Buddy]

It is not pleasant having breasts pressed against your cheek while having your teeth drilled...

Says you

I knew that was coming.

I am a big fan of low hanging fruit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Bad Penny II]

Bad Penny, while you're waiting for Tank to take XSSph to task, would you be willing to grant me an implement? Nothing so grand as a spoon seeing as I don't have nearly enough posts. But seeing as I've been hanging around a good while, what about about a silver dentist's tooth scraper?

I could possibly grant you an implement if I remember, I think I usually do remember, at least I don't remember forgetting.
I think there's some flaws in his logic but I'll remind him. 

[Bad Penny II]

Bad Penny, while you're waiting for Tank to take XSSph to task, would you be willing to grant me an implement? Nothing so grand as a spoon seeing as I don't have nearly enough posts. But seeing as I've been hanging around a good while, what about about a silver dentist's tooth scraper?

I could possibly grant you an implement if I remember, I think I usually do remember, at least I don't remember forgetting.
I think there's some flaws in his logic but I'll remind him. 

Righteo then, I've been doing some, what's the word?
Stalking?
Vetting, I've been doing some vetting of your request.

People who leave some sort of bodily liquid on the toilet seat. So very rude.

Austin's a fun town, and there's always something to do/go see, beer to drink but I miss having seasons, especially fall.

I love the story of the Nutcracker.

1. I am extremely lazy in many ways and so will be recycling several items that I used for a similar list on another site.
2. I sometimes have elaborate fantasies about how tough and resilient I will be while trying to survive after the apocalypse. In my fantasies I am quite muscular.
3. My favorite thing is Beer.
4. I run at least three miles/thirty minutes at least three times a week.
5. I find people who tell others about their exercise regimens to be sanctimonious and irritating  .
6. Any health benefits accrued from item 4 are totally counteracted by my love of beer.
7. I'd like some beer.
8. I'm often somewhat socially awkward, and on those few occasions when I actually do hit it out the ballpark socially speaking, all I can think is, "Damn, now I've set up unrealistically high expectations for my next interaction with this person."
9. My guilty pleasure while on long drives is to listen to religious talk radio.
10. I'm super competitive, even with things I obviously suck at (such as sprint races).
11. I was a gorgeous baby, easily upper first percentile.

my grandma's house (woodsmoke, frying bacon or liver), fresh coffee, fallen autumn leaves, pipe tobacco, my boy cat's gingivitis-y fishy breath, certain people's sweat


I really like IPAs, but wish it was easier to find a flavorful low-ABV one. It's no fun to have two beers and already be trashed. When we went to London a couple years ago, I noticed there were a bunch of super-low-ABV IPAs available there, but they also tasted nothing like our super-hoppy American IPAs.

So I thought about letting you have custody of the HAF toilet brush.
I talked him out of that.
You're such a groveller Green, Green the Groveller.
I could of given you the HAF nutcracker but I don't know where it is, Green's probably left it somewhere.
It seems you like beer though so you're getting the HAF bottle opener.
As you only have a paltry post count you can't take it home, I don't want to set any unwanted precedents.
So when you go home, leave it on the nail sticking out of HAF's certified piece of the true cross.
It's your job to open all bottles for members, this may seem onerous but you are entitled to the first swig of every bottle, for quality control purposes.

[Anne D.]

Thanks, Bad Penny! I promise to carry out my duties faithfully. Now I just have to figure out how to put stuff in my "signature" line.

And jesus, I'd forgotten about that old post. I think you've outed me as Brett Kavanaugh.

[Tank]

It is not pleasant having breasts pressed against your cheek while having your teeth drilled...

Says you

I knew that was coming.

I am a big fan of low hanging fruit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But not plumbs?