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Hortensis

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5. Know the problem. How much trouble to cause?

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Fri Jan 31, 2020, 10:46 AM

Jan 2020

The choice would be between sitting and (not) grinding my teeth, though, or asking the staff to turn the TV off, or doing it myself. Nuts to the hall.

Hope the rest of the appointment's the nice part.

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Of all mornings I am now stuck in a dentist's waiting... [View all] Botany Jan 2020 OP

I'm a grumpy old white guy that would change it right back, I'm one of many grumpy ... marble falls Jan 2020 #1

I'm a grumpy old white girl and I would change it right back as well. redstatebluegirl Jan 2020 #3

I'm with you 100% sister! marble falls Jan 2020 #4

I'm surprised and not surprised MontanaMama Jan 2020 #2

It was causing fist fights at the VA. I can watch "Leave it to Beaver", "Perry Mason" ... marble falls Jan 2020 #6

Know the problem. How much trouble to cause? Hortensis Jan 2020 #5

It was a small office Botany Jan 2020 #8

I know. Hortensis Jan 2020 #12

My dentist Freddie Jan 2020 #13

I would have asked the receptionist to turn it off. blueinredohio Jan 2020 #7

Tell him to use headphones if he wants to listen to his "gangsta music"... JHB Jan 2020 #9

How do you expect him to stay his grumpy self... dubyadiprecession Jan 2020 #10

This why these a$$holes are running the government. mnhtnbb Jan 2020 #11

It was my elderly mom's dentist office and it just wasn't the place or the time Botany Jan 2020 #14