Official February Shit List Thread

[Dysnomia]

sooooooo....I fucked up my car on the way to class tonight.  It's probably totalled, OR the damage hugely outweighs the value of the car.  Will post pics of fucked up car tomorrow when I can take good pics in the light. 

What happened was I was driving along the freeway to class, when I looked away for just a second.  Apparently in that second everyone decided to stop...well, everyone but me.  When I looked up I had about 20ft to slam on my breaks, to no avail, slammed right into the person in front of me fucking up their back end, and my front end.  Smoke came pouring out my vents, air bags went off, everything went flying, but SOMEHOW I am not hurt.  Not even a fucking scratch.  Will probably be sore tomorrow though. 

[Suu]

Jesus Christ, woman! 

[Jasper]

At least you're not hurt!  Was the guy you hit so lucky?  Why'd they stop like that?

[Dysnomia]

NO IDEA the guy drove off, so fuck if I know how they are.   

[Jasper]

If he was healthy enough to run away, fuck 'em.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

NO IDEA the guy drove off, so fuck if I know how they are.   

he must not have had insurance.
glad you're o.k. though, damn.
you may have a sore neck or at least a sore chest from your seat belt that you WERE wearing ~motherly stare~

sucks about your car. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh holy shit! I'm glad you're OK!

[Lies]

I am now ready to talk about the terrible experience I had at the dentist yesterday. My old dentist, who was awesome, retired, and he sold his practice to a young couple. They seem nice enough, but this is the first time I had them do any work on me.

I went in for three fillings. One to replace an old cracked filling, one to replace a small filling that the dentist said "looked suspicious" (unsurprising, since all of my fillings are close to 20 years old) and one for some pitting on a lower molar. Soooo...

I get there and she looks at my chart. "What's the heart problem?"

"Just a minor arrhythmia, no big deal."

"Oh, so we won't use Epinephrine."

"Uhhhh I think it's OK, they've always used it before."

"No, we don't like to use it if there are heart problems, just in case. It'll be fine, the anaesthetic just wears off a bit faster."

I already burn through Novocaine in record time. This was my first tip-off that things were not going to go as planned. The next tip-off came when I said,

"It probably says this in my chart, but apparently there are two common nerve branchings that most people have, and I have the less common of the two."

She was holding up her giant needle of Epinephrine-free Novocaine. I've never had a dentist pause at this, most of them just go "oh" and proceed to shoot me up in the appropriate location for my numbing needs. This one, though, seemed not to know exactly what to do.

"Hmmmmm. Well, I think that usually only affects the back teeth."

She then injected me in five spots, and started poking about in my mouth, examining the areas she was about to drill out. She started picking at my eyeteeth, and decided she wanted to fill in these divots in the front, to make them prettier, since I was there at her mercy anyway.

The rest is sort of a blur of horror, and I can't recount it in perfect sequence, so I'll just give the general idea:

Those divots were my undoing. She filled one, decided it was the wrong color, drilled it out and filled it again with a more translucent color. She finished the second one and started working on my lower pitting, and I announced  that I was NOT AT ALL NUMB in that tooth, so she gave me three more shots and started working on my upper. Unfortunately, by then the anaesthetic had worn off in the upper, so she gave me four more shots and went back to the lower. Not numb. NOT NUMB. She gave me FIVE MORE SHOTS and went away for a while. Finally, I had lost sensation in part of my tongue, so she finished filling the pits and turned her attention to the upper.

For some reason, she wasn't satisfied with it, so she DRILLED IT OUT and refilled part of it. There was some sort of metal device that went around the tooth and she had a terrible time with it. So did I. There was blood. More shots were needed. The hygienist kept thinking my gums were numb, and her air-sucky-tool was poking me until I complained about it, which is difficult to do with two people jamming shit in your mouth. Eventually the fillings were all done, and THEN it took an absurdly long time for the dentist to grind them down to the correct shape and polish them... she'd grind a little, and then assume she was done and start taking off her gloves without even asking if it felt right yet! I had to stop her twice to get her to finish my fucking teeth.

Eventually I was done and I got to stagger home and cry because my jaw was in so much pain that it hurt to eat yogurt. And then I had the worst Novocaine hangover for the rest of the day. My face still hurts. I don't know how many injections I had altogether, but it was TOO FUCKING MANY. I am going to a different dentist next time and I am not telling them that I have an arrhythmia.

Gah, I was supposed to go into the dentist today for emergency filling...
but I slept in and they don't take emergencies past a certain time 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh, ow! That's no good...

[Bruno]

I have an appointment Friday to see a dentist. I have a wisdom tooth that sometimes gets all hurty and swolen around the gum. I've notice more and more sinus problems on that side recently over the last year.

Just this last week I had another flare-up, and it started affecting my jaw! It got to the point that I couldn't open my mouth all the way. It's normal now. No swelling or pain, jaw normal, but it's clearly time to take care of business. 

[Dysnomia]

voila!  my car




can't see the broken windshield really because of the glare, but you can see my mirror sitting on my dash in front of the airbag.  hood scrunched up, bumper fucked up, radiator crushed, and god knows what else.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

 

[Raphaella]

Glad you were not hurt, sucks about the car though.

[Dysnomia]

from the side...

[Cain]

voila!  my car

 

If you're going to crash, you may as well do some proper damage.  Otherwise people might think you weren't trying.