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Dear Reader,
I have to go to the dentist in an hour and a half. I'm just going to get my teeth cleaned. I should be thrilled. If someone were coming to clean my house, or detail my car today, I'd welcome them with a batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies. I'd be so excited to see them; everything would be so clean and tidy after they left.
Actually I'm taking my dentist chocolate chip cookies, too, but not because I'm thrilled about seeing him. It's a bribe. I bring cookies along almost every time I go to the dentist. I don't exactly know why I think I need a bribe. Do I think he won't be nice to me unless I bring cookies? He's never been mean and he's never made me get a filling without any novocaine.
I think it goes back to when I was a kid. I bit the dentist when he was trying to fill my tooth. He faked being happy to see me after that, and I didn't even bother faking it. I'd just cringe up my nose and snarl at him--I was only eight years old.
I'm too old to snarl at the dentist without looking like a jerk, or more politely put--a woman who seems to be in a bad mood--so I bring cookies, just in case I'm giving off, "I don't like you" vibes. I "cookie" my dentist and his staff in hopes that they'll all be so busy munching on my chocolate chips, that any bad vibes they pick up from me, they'll blame themselves. "We must be reading her wrong. How could such a nice woman, who baked cookies, be thinking horrible things about the dentist?"
But she is...I hate going to the dentist.
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Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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