Trip(s) to the Dentist

Yesterday, I had to leave work early for a dentist appointment. One of my back molars cracked and was jagged. I wasn't sure if it was a filling that broke or the tooth itself. Sadly, it was the tooth and the dentist gave me the option to have a crown added to it, which I elected to do. Just to give you an image, my dentist is kind of hot. He's about my height (5'8"), silver hair shaved on the sides and long enough to be pulled back, thick graying beard, piercing blue eyes, a wonderful Southern accident, and a stocky, muscular body. So after an hour of drilling, his dental assistant was fitting me for a temporary crown.

I think she must have been in training, because it took a long time for her to get the temporary made. So I made it home and spent the rest of the night working on comic book pages. When I brushed my teeth, I felt the toothpaste go under the temp and it hurt.

The next morning, I got up and felt it loosen. It popped off, so I knew I was going to have call the dentist, but it was 5 AM. I went to work and ate a donut. Somewhere between the donut and 8 AM, my temp vanished, and I'm pretty sure I swallowed it. So I called the dentist's office and the receptionist wanted me in there pronto.

I left at 8:30 and was there by 9. They put me with the "old school" assistant who didn't fool with the molds and models, but made it by hand and she was fast and amazing. Seriously, the other assistant took almost an hour to do this and it fit poorly. This lady had me done in 15 minutes and that thing was a perfect fit and solidly in place. I heard it "snap" in place and then she cemented it in.

Having multiple trips to the dentist wasn't fun, but I think it's fixed for now, at least until the permanent one is in place.

"We have detected a problem..."

So while I was typing up the previous entry, I had a call on the phone. It was from someone with a foreign accent, letting me know that they have detected a problem with my computer.

I rolled my eyes at this and was very close to hanging up, but decided to play with him for a bit. After asking me if I was at my computer, what browser I was using, etc., he asked me what keys I had on my keyboard. I literally rattled off, in my dumbest hick voice, the command key, the spacebar, the Alt key, the arrow keys, and then added a few random keys for good measure.

He directed me to my browser, and after I told him every menu option I had at the top (and I mean EVERY one), he had me go to a "TeamViewer.com" website and asked me downloaded the free version. I faked my way into the download, which took much longer than it really does.

"... and it's loading... and it's loading... and it's loading..."

I found a screen shot of the software's main screen on Google and proceeded to tell him every menu on that screen too.

Finally, he asked me to go to a username/password screen and asked me to type in certain numbers. At this stage, about 10 minutes into the call, I asked him what this would do, what kind of problems the computer supposedly has, how he knew it...

He was getting frustrated with me and said he would tell me everything once I put the numbers in and hit enter.

I was getting bored with him and finally asked if I could ask just one more question:

"Just how F**KING stupid do you think I am???"

He immediately started calling me a "jack-off" to which I replied with other colorful phrases with multiple curse words.

Seriously, I could hear other "operators" in the background and I can only imagine how much damage this soulless prick has done to other people, probably senior citizens who don't know any better. I was happy to cuss him out and waste his time.