thoughts – WrookieSchU

How are you feeling right now?

Just on my early morning commute to work, sitting on the train and happy to be warm when I hear a person below shouting. I can’t hear what he says but it sounds loud and with an aggressive tone. Other commuters start to take notice and one man actually leaves our carriage to go downstairs to tell the man to pipe down. To my surprise, it works and the man returns. We see these kind of people a lot in Sydney, you don’t want to presume but normally drugs have a lot to do with it. It sends the people crazy and you’re scared to even look at them in case they snap.

When the man returned to our carriage I thought how brave he was to go and speak to the noisy passenger but at the same time, a lot of people would be scared to intervene. What if the passenger returned with a knife or wanted to fight, you just never know these days.

Anything remotely confrontational makes me feel sick to my stomach so I am very grateful for the man who took a no nonsense approach. The train is now very quiet.

What would you do in that situation?

I should be drifting off to sleep now but I just had a thought about yesterday and how I would like to share with you all.

I had my six monthly check up and clean yesterday with my very lovely dentist. We were just finishing up when she asked if I had any questions. Funnily enough, I was thinking of a couple of things while trying to escape the dental clean (mentally not literally) which can be pretty invasive. I like to keep my mind busy with other thoughts and distract myself. I was looking at the ceiling and wondering why there was just a plain white ceiling. It would be amazing to have some art work there or at least something to look at. That was question number one –

Why do you not have anything on the ceiling? (as your patients must stare at it for quite some time).

Then I was wondering do people ever look into their dentists’ eyes when having treatment. I always try to avoid looking at their eyes, looking all over the ceiling to find something of interest. Or I may even close my eyes if the clean becomes too intense. That was my second question –

Does anyone ever stare at your eyes during treatment?

My dentist wholeheartedly agreed that artwork on the ceiling would be a great idea or even a television. She also said some strange people do look into her eyes and it’s kind of creepy. I was fascinated to hear what other patients think or get up to whilst in the dentist chair.

Do you have any thoughts or questions you would ask your dentist? Do you look at your dentists’ eyes or would you look away?

Please share your thoughts, I am very intrigued.

Wayne 🦷

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Sick to the stomach

What would you ask your dentist?