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Pipes and Teeth...bad combo
I'm going to tell you the pipe story...in script format. This is a situation we had at work yesterday where Pierre wanted to know what this long, hollow cord with a spout on the end (air hose spout for compressed air to blow powder out of little cracks) was in English. I tried to tell him...and this was how it goes. (btw, Agnus is Kenyan and can speak fluent english too)

Me = Me
P = Pierre
A = Agnus

8.00am

P: What do you call this? *holds up spout cord thing*
Me: In english?
P: yeah.
Me: It's a...uhm...er...can I get back to you on that one?
P: *laughs* Sure

10.30am

P: Mel...?
Me: I'm working on it ok!
P: That's good, tell me when you figure it out.

11.00

P: Have you...
Me: Look, I speak three languages. English, Dutch and Elvish/French/Some strange made up Adiemus language...and some times I get them mixed up.
P: So you haven't got it.
Me: *sighs* No.

12.00pm

P: So, have you figured it out yet?
Me: Oh shut up

2.00pm

A: It's a pipe.
Me: It's NOT a pipe!
P: Yeah, a pipe is that thing up there *points to a pipe running along the wall*
A: I still say it's a pipe.
Me: It's NOT a...
A: It's a PIPE Mel, what else could it be? What do YOU classify as pipe?
Me: Well something that isn't so bendy that's for sure *bends cord thing for emphasise*
A: A HOSE pipe...it's a pipe.
Me: It's NOT a freaken Pipe...hose...Air hose it's an Air hose...
A: PIPE!!
Me: No pipe in there, just hose.
A: Pipe, it's a pipe.
Me: It's NOT a freaken PIPE!!
A: Pipe
Me: Nope
A: What is a pipe? It lets stuff flow through it...like air or water...it's a pipe.
Me: NO, just air hose with no pipe in there.
A: It IS a pipe...
Me: With no pipe in the name!
A: PIPE!!
Me: NO!!
A: Pi...
P: I have a pipe...

And so sanity dissolves, even after Pierre went on to explain about the old fashioned wooden pipe he had at home...the situation was useless.

And then today...

P: Mel, it's a pipe ya?
Me: Just LEAVE ME ALONE!!!

Anyway, today I was working with Franklin upstairs and he, out of the blue, called out to me "What have you got to give me?"
I think the double take I did was a bit too comical and he started laughing his head off the moment he realized what he said. Somehow, in this factory, a lot of things have double meanings and unfortunately, Franklin has terrible timing and always fails to keep his thoughts to himself. This thought was the name of a song that had just played on the radio...I never caught on.

Ok, then I got off work at 2.30 to go to the dentist. I went...I've had this aching tooth for ages now. On the left side, second molar from the back and it has felt chipped for quite a while. But what scared me is the moment the dentist saw it she said "Oh my, a huge cavity...we may have to do a canal root." I think my eyes bulged quite a bit at that, then she smiled and added "Would you like some Aenesthet...
"YES please!" was my reply and they laughed. I told them after (after 15 minutes of me laying rigid with my fingers clawed in fear) that another dentist had not used aenesthetic and I was still remembering the agony. The sound of drilling wasn't nice though and my tongue was REALLY fat along with the inabilty to talk without drooling. The needle hurt a bit sure, but I've had it in there years ago when my baby teeth had to be pulled out coz they weren't dropping normally, so I winced, but didn't panic. You just gotta grit it out.

So now I sit here, one whole side of my face is numb, but feeling is just starting to come back and they told me I would feel pain. They only packed the tooth today, they'll fill it next week they said. But they told me to take painkillers because it would be sure to hurt later...I got something even stronger than Advil.

And I quote (in a message to Amny)

I can't speak, they numbed my mouth all on the left side so my tongue is real fat...ROOT CANAL!!! *faints* They digged out my TOOTH then they packed it...they can't fill it till next Friday so I'm gonna be living on soups for a while. Then after that, the wisdoms will come out, then I go for the braces...I'll be a skinny runt come April. Oh well...thats a good thing right! Ok, am now waiting for the feeling to come back, they gave me super strong (stronger than even Advil) painkillers...they said I would feel a bit of pain and knowing the legendary downtoning of doctors, I got 400mg ones.

The feeling is really starting to come back now, am starting to feel the spot where the needle cwent in and my jaw aches. Nothing bad though...it's all good.

(Here's a little challenge...in a comment leave your own worst tooth experiance and try to make it as bad as you can. The badder the better and I'll compare them all later k. Heh, it's also fun to see if others have had it worse when you felt like you were dying at the time)

Tata

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