The Humans:
On Wednesday nights I have my Oral Communications class. My professor is a hoot and I think he's pretty good at explaining why we need to study how to communicate. If I'm able to give the right answers at an interview, then I'll be above the rest of the artists trying for the same job.
Here is a sample of the syllabus for this class and hilighted in yellow is why he cracks us up:
The Lettuce:
So, on Tuesdays I have class from 1-5 then again from 6-10. In between I stroll over to Which 'Wich and have a sandwich for dinner. This week, after eating a hot roast beef, I was picking lettuce from between my teeth - a usual thing - when my filling popped out. "Oh Jaysus, what the hell is going on?" I moved my tongue around and felt the hole in my very back left bottom molar. It didn't hurt and there was no sensitivity, so I thought, "Well, I guess I'll just find a dentist tomorrow and see about getting that put back together."
That was the plan. Here is what resulted. This tooth had a filling in it already on the top from when I was in the Air Force stationed at Wichita Falls. Then, a few years ago, another filling was put on the other side of the tooth in Maryland. This is the filling that popped out. It was never put in properly in the first place so the whole tooth is in decay. So my new dentist is putting on a crown and it's fourteen hundred bucks because I don't have insurance. Luckily I have a Discover credit card I can use so I called my parents because they are cosigners on the card. I told my mother what was going on and she's like "Whaaaatt?? why is it so much?" I told her "That's just how much things cost these days. It's not 1985. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know in case you see the statement you'll know I haven't been out renting limousines and hookers." Then she said, "Well, what you do is your business, just as long as you paying off the card like you said you would and not screwing up our credit."
These are the people that raised me. How great are they?
And now I want to eat, but the whole left side of my face is still numb.
1 comment:
Girl, you DO have a time of it. And I understand about the "people who raised me." They sound sort of like the people who raised ME.
Wed. I had to go to the funeral of my step-father. He, my mom and 2 sisters kicked me out of the family 20 years ago. Why bother? Because it felt like the right thing to do, offer an olive branch and all.
See my blog. It's way down there on the page. The poem I wrote about our family.
My two steps were blatantly rude to me. My two sibs were cold as ice. I only connected with my poor mother, a grieving widow now. All those years down the drain.
I'm sorry for your situation, Vicki. Especially having the crown. I had a similar situation, and my new dentist said it needed a crown. I got a second opinion from my prev. dentist. He said he wouldn't even suggest a crown; the tooth had so many cracks, a crown would have failed. Talk about a rip-off. My prev. dentist is now my primo dentist. LOL
Get well soon.
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