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About a month and a half ago, I said of my dentist:
This hasn't happened to me, but my boss tells me that whenever he goes to this same dentist, he seems to leave with an armful of free vegetables.
I've got one up on you... when I went to the dentist this week, she gave me a suit!
She and I are similarly-sized, so in addition to our trivia-swapping conversations, we frequently talk about clothes shopping and where to find cute petite-sized clothes.
My dentist said, "It's hard, though, because I'm a bigger size on the top than I am on the bottom."
I responded, "AAAMMMMAAAAPPPPAAAFFFFFFTTTTT," by which I meant, "I'm the opposite." (She understood me, because she is a dentist and the most important dental skill of all is understanding people when their mouths are full of dental tools. That and knowing when to move your hand out of the way and keep someone from biting you when you poke a sensitive part of the tooth with the pokey/scrapey tool during a cleaning. Not that I have experience with that.) When she took her hand out of my mouth, I joked, "We could buy suits together and swap pieces!"
She said, "That reminds me, I have this suit that I bought, and I've only worn it once or twice because it just doesn't fit me right. I bet it would fit you! Do you want it? I could bring it in to the office and you could come pick it up."
What the heck! Free suit! She called me the next day to let me know she'd brought the suit and I could swing by after work to pick it up. She gave it to me and recommended that I try it on, so I changed in the bathroom and came out and modeled it for all of the clinic staff. All of the mirrors in the office seemed to be on little sticks and only appropriate for viewing teeth, rather than full-length views of suits, so I didn't get to see myself until I'd brought it home. But I think it's pretty cute and - even better - a crazy awesome story. All I've ever gotten from my previous dentists was a free toothbrush and a scolding about my flossing habits.
Suit up!
srah - Thursday, 27 September 2007 - 7:53 PM
Tags: dentist, fashion, petites
Comments (6)
Cheryl - September 28, 2007 - 8:29 AM - ℓ
I love your dentist. I love when people like health professionals and mechanics remember you and stuff. Although, it is not fun to go to the mechanics regularly enough that they remember you.
wow, that's awesome!