Oh, let me be, rather than go shopping after a dental appointment
Booed off the stage;
Or develop an incurable combination of Malaria and carpal tunnel;
Or compel my hand to burn all books; send me
Through the slaughter house a thousand times; or force me to hear
Ashcroft sing in an eternal loop;
Or take my things to be smashed, and
Bid me walk over a field of the shattered pieces.
Or rip from me my soul and will with cold iron hooks;
Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
And I will do them without fear or doubt,
To go without shopping after a dental appointment.
Not so much dental dread as after-dental dread.
Going shopping after a dentist appointment is cruel. You feel so self conscious when your lip feels the size of your foot and you can't drink anything because of the fluoride. (Shopping obviously leads to coffee. Everything leads to coffee if you're me.)
I'm sure you will get an A plus.