The Brutally Honest Dental Hygienist
The dentist I had been going to for some time recently went to another dental office, so I switched as well. This meant seeing new dental hygienists, and in particular the Brutally Honest Dental Hygienist. After filling out the paper work I was called in to lay down on the chair: they wanted to take X-Rays. Surprise. They always want to take X-Rays. So this middle aged lady does the whole routine, sticks the cardboard in my mouth, leaves the room, I hear a buzzing noise, she comes back, does it again. After we're done she leaves the room and comes back 10 minutes later saying the X-Rays weren't clear and that we need to do it again. But no, she doesn't leave it at that, she starts to explain what went wrong.
"Well gee, I guess I had the whole thing backward all that time. Those X-Rays didn't turn out at all. I've been doing this for 20 years and now I suddenly just can't take X-Rays anymore."
"Is there new equipment that's hard to learn?" I suggested, thinking that was the only good explanation.
"No, it's the same stuff I've been using for 20 years. I just can't seem to do it right anymore."
Yeah. About that. I don't want this lady poking around my mouth with sharp instruments.
© 2005, Michael Logsdon