I find myself relating to the expressions of a Galapagos tortoise to describe my day.

Dentist:  Ok, open wide

Kim:  Ok....ahhhhhhh

Dentist:  Here we go....

Kim thinking to herself, because she cannot speak:  Owwwwie, that was smarts.

Dentist:  Ok, gonna do another shot.

Kim thinking to herself:  Darn, surely one should do it?

Dentist, while holding a syringe:  Hold still while I......

Kim thinking to herself:  WHAT IS THIS???????  Childbirth was a piece of cake!

Dentist:  Sorry

Kim thinking (almost out loud by now):  PLEASE, either just get the needle out of the roof of my mouth or shoot me!  Wait, he DID.

Dentist:  Almost done.

Kim thinking with facial expressions and sliding down the seat:  Must hit the man below the belt.

Dentist:  Ok.  It's over.

Kim thinking and making fists:  Oh nooooo, it is NOT over!  I might be quickly losing the feeling in my mouth, but I will never trust you again!

Nurse, after Dentist leaves the room momentarily:  He always does those to insure you have no pain.

Kim thinking with silent with eyes like needles and tightened lips:  Spare me such kindness next time.

Nurse:  I know, it is a very tender place to give a shot.

Kim thinking with an inner lion growl:  You might as well have put it in my EYE.

Dentist: (after waltzing back in):  Are we ready?

Kim thinking to herself:  I will never be ready after that, and.....I will never trust you again.

Dentist:  Open wide.

Kim reluctantly thinking:  Ok

Dentist:  Open wider.

Kim thinking:  it's my mouth, not the Royal Gorge, though some may have argued that.

Dentist over the sound of suction noises:  Ok, Kim, you have to sit still.  It is hard to drill a moving target.

Kim, as she is getting her face sucked inside out by an air tube:  I don't like this game.  I wanna go home.

Dentist:  That's good.  About to get it.

Kim thinking while feeling with her tongue the gap he has carved out of what was once her tooth:  He took my tooth away.  Do I dare let him finish?

Dentist:  Just a little more.

Kim thinking while drooling and feeling defeated and humiliated:  Well, why not.  Maybe I'll get paid more.

Dentist:  Ok.  Bite down on this little piece of cardboard and moulding putty.

Kim thinking & being distracted by yet more suction:  That "little" piece of cardboard feels like a refrigerator box inside my mouth.  And...I don't trust you - or like you.

Dentist:  A few more minutes until that is set.

Kim thinking while suction tube grabs tongue and tries to vacuum it to unpleasant places:  If this cements my mouth shut I can still hit you.

Dentist:  Alright, ready!  I'll put the temporary on now.  You ready to be done?

Kim nodding and thinking while suction takes the side of jaw:  I don't think I'd be more ready if I were starving to death and was given a donut.

Dentist:  That should do you for today.  Come back and see me in two weeks and we'll have your permanent tooth ready.  it will be a much easier visit.

Kim with fat lip, still wiping tooth chips off her face:  We'll see. I don't trust you. i might still not like you. And I darn well don't want to come back to see you.

Dentist:  Take you some IB Profin and take it easy.

Kim nodding and thinking: Since you didn't offer me Oxycodone, I may be driven to crime at a pharmacy.

Kim:  Thanks, have a great day.  

Kim thinking:  I kinda doubt it will "suck" as much as mine.