Grugger’s Way

A most unfortunate, and untimely accident, has left me with a new, Nasty-looking smile.

I was just eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when I felt my front tooth “give way.”  I carefully pushed everything out onto a paper towel and examined the mess for the pieces.  How can this happen?  Why?  Dentists offer little comfort except to say that “it can happen any time.”

Well, the last time this happened I was eating Frozen Jelly Bellies up at a ski mountain, and there was an easy explanation for that break…and it was twelve years ago…a back tooth, but these kind of “accidents” are really expensive, and since I retired I have no dental insurance. OUchy!

It would indeed be good if the President’s economic stimulus included an immediate $800 per couple tax rebate instead of simply withholding a few dollars less of income tax from the pay stub, but even that doesn’t benefit me now that I am retired.

I don’t draw social security yet, so no one-time $250 payment either.  Well, I know there are those who need it worse than I do.

If this is the kind of thing we get to look forward to with increasing regularity as we age, I, for one, would like to reverse this process and start over again, thank you very much.

(NOTE:  Over on my Doug’s Missoula blog, My New Front Tooth, I have a Paypal “Donate” button for the “tooth fairy,” if any kind souls are of a mood to contribute a dollar towards a new smile.  How embarrassing to ask.)

Someone commented that my new smile was “sexy.”   Think again.    Do I look like Terry Thomas?  I do remember him; we are getting old.

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