My Great Day Out at the Dentist

The other morning, I had a dentist appointment for 12am. I was due an extraction of a rear tooth and I so feared it.

Around 11 am, I drove my mobility scooter en-route towards my dentist surgery. I could distinctly smell heavy smoke halfway there.

Facing the road I had to travel, I witnessed much chaos going on. The air was full of smoke and it just kept on pouring out. I saw many fire engines in attendance and the road was closed off to all traffic. A bar and above pool hall " right opposite my dentist " was on fire.

So I paused and lit a cigarette. I thought nobody could now moan about my smoke being secondary.  At around 11.30, I decided to continue my journey down towards my dentist. Many people were walking up and down that road though the smoke seemed to get thicker and thicker. It was a strange sight; amongst all the fire-tenders were many fire-fighters all wearing heavy breathing gear and oxygen tanks " yet right next door to the burning building were construction workers on a scaffold, in the path of the heavy blowing smoke, yet nonchalantly carrying on with their work and seemingly unperturbed by not only the black heavy smoke, but also apparently vague to what was going on all around them.

The British Worker will only stop for tea and now't else!

I parked my scooter outside my dentist and went on in. I was very early but a good job as not long after the police closed the road off to all pedestrians as well. At the same time the dental receptionists were busy cancelling all appointments for that day via telephone. There was nobody else in the waiting room but me.

So I got called up way before my appointment. The dentist room faced the main road and I could still see the smoke billowing out from the top windows of the bar. The dental assistant looked out of the window and said that the firemen were breaking all the front windows. She could see a Christmas tree inside. She also said that there were firemen walking around all red-faced and covered in soot.

As I lay back in that dentist chair " knowing that I was the only patient so they had lots of time on their hands for little me, I felt really comfortable as they lowered the chair despite still being so fearful of the forthcoming dreaded extraction.

The dental assistant put me at ease as she put some dark glasses on me. 'Imagine you're lying flat on a sun-soaked beach!'

However, as that awful needle went in and those frightening tools came out " I suddenly peered out of the window and saw a large fire-engine turntable ladder go up. Following that, came many brave fire-fighters rushing up that ladder. The tooth came out and I hardly noticed. How I wish it had taken a lot longer!

So you see. God is good. Well., He was to me that morning.

After, the police helped me evacuate the area on my scooter by raising all the barriers and I made my way home.

Got more appointments to come. I can't wait!