Miserable

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Did you ever try not to stare at someone's teeth, when those teeth were just terrible? Take these dogs, for example...
Well, Friday I took Mother to the drugstore to pick up her eye drops. We went into a couple shops and browsed around some sale items (I got a marvelous $89 dress for $13.65!). When we were finished it was too late for her to get dinner at the Villa so I invited her to join Sam and me for supper. I'd picked up a couple grilled chickens and asked Mother if she'd make a salad since she likes doing that.

We sat down at the table and Sam said grace. Mother turned to me and gave me a full-on toothy grin. Only right in the front center, a tooth was completely gone. I was shocked! Apparently she bit down on a piece of carrot and her tooth just crumbled down to nothing. It had disintegrated. Now she looked like toothless Annie. After my gasps and then howls subsided, we tried to figure out what to do. This would happen on a holiday weekend when her dentist is out of town. She will have to wait until Tuesday when he is back. Fortunately she doesn't have any discomfort in the socket. But she looks shocking.

We watched a Laurel and Hardy video clip and she laughed her head off. Of course, every time she laughed, she became self conscious and covered her mouth. "What am I going to do at the Villa?" was her question. "Wait until Evelyn (her friend) sees this! What will everyone say?"

As I dropped her off in front of the Villa, I told her that if she would just stop looking in the mirror and showing all her teeth in a big toothy grin, people would be less likely to notice.
"Can you talk with your lip down over your teeth?"
"Mmpehr fwpco bwoeir... No...Maybe if I put my head down."
She tried again.
"Mother, you sound like you've had a stroke. Don't do that."
She cracked up.
And like a trooper, she climbed chuckling out of the car and went inside. I don't think she'll be very talkative with too many people this weekend. Bless her heart.