Tuesday, February 3, 2009
A Train Trip to Susami.
The year is 1979, it is a warm May afternoon and the time is 4:00; the day is Friday. I stand here, on a train platform, surrounded by pushing and shoving Japanese commuters all heading for home. I am, myself waiting for a train to take me to the southern part of Japan ’s Honshu Island, Wakayama. My...
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
A Joke.
Every Friday at 3:00pm, Mrs. Colleen Brown enters her local bank and banks $10,000. Months go by and as sure as the sun rises in the morning sky, Mrs. Brown arrives at the bank on Fridays and makes her weekly deposit. One of the bank tellers reports to the bank manager that Mrs. Brown is indeed one...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
The End of the Dentist.
I was in the chair for around 30 minutes in totally. My mouth had suffered a sort of oral rape. I survived the ordeal and the following week both cavities were filled and as far as I was concern, the treatment was over. I sat in the chair smiling. "It's over," I said to myself, while I waited for...
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
My Dentist, Part Three.
It truly was and is amazing that a dentist could understand what someone says while his fingers are stuffed down that person's throat. As he was digging around and poking my teeth, I thought I'd test him, to see if he really did understand me when his fingers and tools were in my mouth. So, I asked...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
My Dentist Part Two
I didn't understand, but rather than make a big issue out of it, I nodded and returned to my laid-back position with my mouth open. Next the dentist says to me, "I think we need to X-ray your teeth, please follow my assistant, Yuko, to the X-ray room." The chair started its descent and I sat up,...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
My Dentist
As a kid, in elementary school, I called it the murderhouse, as an adult I called it the murderhouse. I am of course referring to the dentist. To the best of my knowledge, most people hate going to the dentist, whether it's the inconvenience of having to go there or the trepidation that going there...
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