two eggs?
this is one of those arb stories at the back of my head.
you know 18 months ago, a couple of weeks before my summer break to toronto, i paid my dentist a visit. it had been a long while and hence i needed two cleaning sessions (one for each layer of build up) and two or three fillings. the cleaning went really well - gums being prodded and jabbed by some instrument. then came the fillings days later.
however, one of my fillings developed a life of its own and decided to cause some sort of irration. yeah, you know when you gum decides "hell no!" and rejects the foreign body. there's obviously plenty pain involved. and we know just how bad a toothache can be.
anyhoo, this was me on a saturday in bristol, total agony, i call the emergency hotline and they told me to wait until monday. 48 hours of torture. i was advised to seek some pain remedies from my local chemist. okay. i walked from my little studio to cheltenham road by the arches (prime student area in bristol) and bang, there's a seedy chinese shop which sells all sorts of cures from the far east. i'm sure they have something for an aching tooth. i walk over to the pleasant man with his inviting smile.
me: do you have anything for a toothache?
him: excuse me.
me: do.. you.. have.. any.. thing.. for.. a.. tooth.. ache..?
him: ah, wait right there.
he walks around to the back. 17 seconds pass. he walks back to the counter with a small box the size of a matchbox in his hand. he shows it to me. it has a man's face on it. the man is smiling.
him: you take this, a little bit and you rub it.
me: what's a little bit?
him: a tiny little bit and you rub on there until it is hard.
me: until what's hard?
him: you rub this down there until it is hard [gesturing to the area below my belt]
me: hang on. i need something for my toothache. my tooth hurts. [finger point inside mouth]
him: oh oh, sorry. i thought you meant two eggs.
the laughter that followed cured me for a good two days.
you know 18 months ago, a couple of weeks before my summer break to toronto, i paid my dentist a visit. it had been a long while and hence i needed two cleaning sessions (one for each layer of build up) and two or three fillings. the cleaning went really well - gums being prodded and jabbed by some instrument. then came the fillings days later.
however, one of my fillings developed a life of its own and decided to cause some sort of irration. yeah, you know when you gum decides "hell no!" and rejects the foreign body. there's obviously plenty pain involved. and we know just how bad a toothache can be.
anyhoo, this was me on a saturday in bristol, total agony, i call the emergency hotline and they told me to wait until monday. 48 hours of torture. i was advised to seek some pain remedies from my local chemist. okay. i walked from my little studio to cheltenham road by the arches (prime student area in bristol) and bang, there's a seedy chinese shop which sells all sorts of cures from the far east. i'm sure they have something for an aching tooth. i walk over to the pleasant man with his inviting smile.
me: do you have anything for a toothache?
him: excuse me.
me: do.. you.. have.. any.. thing.. for.. a.. tooth.. ache..?
him: ah, wait right there.
he walks around to the back. 17 seconds pass. he walks back to the counter with a small box the size of a matchbox in his hand. he shows it to me. it has a man's face on it. the man is smiling.
him: you take this, a little bit and you rub it.
me: what's a little bit?
him: a tiny little bit and you rub on there until it is hard.
me: until what's hard?
him: you rub this down there until it is hard [gesturing to the area below my belt]
me: hang on. i need something for my toothache. my tooth hurts. [finger point inside mouth]
him: oh oh, sorry. i thought you meant two eggs.
the laughter that followed cured me for a good two days.
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Posted by
Unknown |
11:37 pm, March 18, 2006
Oh my days, oh my days, oh my days.....what DON'T these orientals have!? LOL!!!!
Posted by
Unknown |
11:39 pm, March 18, 2006
Was just browsing thru some blogs and I came across your page- must say this posting has given me a good lung exercise.
Posted by
Lesedi |
1:10 pm, March 25, 2006