My Mom was in a surgeon’s waiting room and…
By request I am publishing an interpretation of an email I sent over a year ago regarding an incident with my mother. Sand, this one’s for you…
I took my mother to the oral surgeon first thing this morning to have two infected teeth removed. Since her Mastoid ear surgery a couple of weeks ago, she can’t hear much at all.
While we were anxious in the oral surgeon’s waiting room, a yearling child was vocalizing happily just out of our sight-line in the large area.
My mother leaned to me and said,
That’s pleasant to hear.
Oh, you can hear that? Good.
After a couple of minutes Mom said,
It’s a man, right?
What?
It’s a man screaming.
What man?
The screaming.
After skipping a beat,
It’s a baby talking
I said, while pointing to the right of the waiting room.
Mom pointed to the left, saying,
Isn’t it a man screaming in the dentist chair?
No, it’s a baby talking.
Poor Mom had been sitting, waiting to have two teeth pulled, listening to a grown man scream in the dentist chair.
Well, men are big babies anyway…
…was all she had to say about that.
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