Dentists use small fussy tools and so do jewelers. Dentists work with gold and so do jewelers. Dentists wear see-biggers (magnifiers) that is what my son used to call them when he was little.\u00a0\u00a0Heck, I can work on teeth. I have teeth so I am qualified.<\/p>\n
That is what went through my mind after walking into the shop and seeing the boss with a mirror and a pair of vise grips. A little background is in order. I work a couple days a week in a machine shop and the owner is nuts. I mean this in the most literal sense. He is the ultimate do-it-yourselfer. Aside from that he is cheap- real cheap and prefers physical pain to financial pain. What do you do when you crack a tooth?\u00a0I go to the dentist. The manly men pull it themselves.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I was given the chance to assist in minor oral surgery right there in the shop. He sprayed the needle nose vise grips with brake parts cleaner, then I cleaned the air gun. I put a new grinding stone in the flex shaft and we went to town on that sucker.<\/p>\n
First he reached up in their with the pliers and grabbed ahold of the little bugger-it made a crushing sound. I was ready with the air hose and the flash light, as well as play by play description of the destruction.\u00a0 Nothin’ like a good pair of vise grips to get ahold of somethin’.\u00a0 I thought he was pretty tough, but man, I think he squeezed out a few tears when the dang thing didn’t come out in one piece. That’s right it wasn’t a clean pull. We had to go back in for seconds, that’s where\u00a0I come in. I use the air hose to clear the deck so to speak. What a mess. He digs in deeper the next time and pulls out some roots. Wow, this guy is made of stone! I would be on the ground whining like a new born. Bingo he gets some but not all of it. Wow that’s alot of blood. He is not even sweatin’ -what a champ. Third time’s a charm -lots of digging but he can’t get a hold of it. He asks if I would be willing to give it a go, but alas, I am a chicken. It is crunch time and I choked. He breaks out the flex shaft and I give him a couple of shots of air into the hole and he grinds the root down. I wish I could tell you he pulled a flask out of his hip pocket and rinsed his mouth with whiskey, but that would be an exaggeration- he used a\u00a0couple of sample bottles of Listerine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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