“I think I need a tooth pulled” I tell the girl.
“Are you having pain?” she asks.
“Not yet” I tell her, “but it’s coming”.
They give me an appointment the next day. The hole feels like it’s the size of my thumb, and I’ve got one on the other side that feels like it’s the size of my index finger. This tooth is coming out. There can’t be anything left to fill. The roots probably aren’t worth a shit anymore either.
I can’t afford a root canal, seeing as how I let the time period slip by when I could’ve got dental insurance. I’ll just tell him to pull it, and I’ll save up for some adamantium screws that they can mount a crown on.
I don’t make any plans for the weekend because I know I’ll be laid up with pain and hopefully pain medication. I wonder if “hillbilly heroin” is legal in Germany? I’m having flashes of a weekend of listening to Bodeco CDs in an OxyContin induced coma that is just exacerbated by copious amounts of hefeweizen. Will I snap out of it in time for college football season or Oktoberfest? These are really my only concerns.
It is with these thoughts swirling in my head that I enter the dentist’s office. I am early so I fill out the new patient paperwork. The girl at the desk is kind of cute. She’s older, probably about my sister’s age, but she’s held up pretty well. I’m getting a strange vibe from her. I think she kind of likes me. Well screw her! Let her get her own OxyContin! I ain’t sharing mine!
I get in to see the dentist, and he tells me that it could be worse.
“Worse how could it be worse?” I ask.
“It could be raining”
Turns out that it’s not quite as bad as I had imagined. I did crack the filling. He removed the loose part, did some superficial drilling, and refilled the tooth. He said the tooth looked fine. There was no decay. He didn’t even give me Novocaine.
No Novocaine means no OxyContin. No OxyContin means the girl at the front will no longer be interested. I was just starting to like her.
When I go to the front to get the bill, I realize that she was never interested. Well that’s OK because she’s starting to look a lot older now. I guess I had OxyGoggles on when I came in.
Actually it went very well, and it was not outrageously expensive. So I went back to the office and made plans with a friend to go to Frankfurt this Saturday. I drove into Wiesbaden and we took the train into Frankfurt. They were having a big Museumfest or something like that. We never actually went into a museum, but we did have some biers, some food, listened to some bands, watched a couple of “Viking Boat” or “Dragon Boat” races, and generally had a pretty good time.
The only real difference between these festivals in Germany and in the States is they have better food and bier here. Look at this grill…
Is that beautiful or what? And that wasn’t even the place we ate! I blew it by not getting pictures there.
Sunday I decided to make an honest to goodness breakfast. So I started it the way all good things start … with onions!
Added some potatoes, salt and pepper …
And then added the blutwurst (blood sausage)!
Let it cook for a while, scraped the pan occasionally (can’t let any scabs form, you know) until all of the flavors were married and the blutwurst was falling apart tender (or was it just falling apart? Is there a difference?).
Scooped it into a bowl, and covered it with some sunny side (down) eggs and hit it with a little Sriracha, and it was ready to serve.
Later I cleaned up the apartment a bit and then went for a walk to commune with the grapes. I’ll post some more pics within a couple of days.
6 comments:
Tony,
Did you sautee' those onions in your pink lard? Just wondering.
You didn't say how your onions, potatoes, blutwurst and eggs concoction tasted. It looked pretty tasty though I'm not sure that I would be much of a fan of blutwurst. Don't care much for livermush, head cheese or any of the other fine delicacies that contain snout, ears and tails as main ingredients. Blutwurst probably falls into a similar category.
W.
I had tooth a cracked tooth about a week and a half ago - at least they gave me the laughing gas while I was getting the filling!
Yes Wilhelm, I did sautee' them in the pork lard. Although it is not as pink as it appears in the picture. I think it might be a little reflected color off of something else. It is not pure as the wind driven snow by any means, however I think you'd find it acceptable. The bluty onions and potatoes were excellent, but I thought that would go without saying.
Tony,
It should have gone without saying that your hog lard, onion, potato, egg and blutwurst concoction was excellent and it was probably an insult for me to even ask.
You have my heartfelt apology.
W.
P.S. I suspect you explanation for the preponderance of pornographic material in the "next, next" blog is spot on. Sorry I didn't think of that.
Yeah it's almost football season! Will you be able to see our Cards in action with coach K over there?
Steven
I'll probably be able to see the Cards a couple of times. I've got a sattelite dish, I just need a receiver, but I can rent those.
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