Saint Saens

Friday, June 1, 2007

People say the dumbest things pt 2

I really didn't think this was going to have a sequel but this was priceless.

I had my semi annual teeth cleaning today. The hygentist that I see is the same one I've seen since I was probably six. She knows me. She knows my entire family. So she comments on the fact that my sister has had a baby. I respond and say that I'm happy for her which is the absolute truth. Her next comment floors me. She says, "I just can't believe that a person like YOUR sister who has never made a correct decision in her life gets to be pregnant while you have been trying all this long time." Now, I feel guilty for being mad at her for such a comment. I am always trying to get people to be more sensitive to the infertiles. So she was sensitive towards me...at the expense of my sister. It pissed me off but who I am to say anything. She had a fistful of sharp instruments in my mouth. My sister has made a lot of mistakes. She didn't graduate from high school. She did a whole lot of drugs in high school and ran away from home. But she has done way more things right than done things wrong. She has gotten herself out of all of those bad situations and really turned her life around. It's easy for my life to healthy and normal because it's always been that way. I think anyone who has had their life be in the crapper and was able to turn it around deserves major kudos not judgment and hostility.

Then, Nancy the hygentist moves on to my brother. She said that she saw him last week for a cleaning and he was all dressed up for work. He is doing some sales job. She then proceeds to berate his job and her final comment about my brother was, "wow, I really thought he would amount to something. Hmmm, I guess not." Ok, what the hell is this womans problem? And why does she keep insulting my family...to my face no less.

I was a total coward and I didn't say a word to her about how rude she was being. But then I left the dentist and heard her toxic comments over and over again in my head. So I called the office back and spoke to the dentist and asked him to switch me to a different hygentist. I was really hoping she would call to apologize so I could say all of the things to defend my family that I should have said to begin with.

Maybe tomorrow will be a better day.

1 comment:

M said...

Wow. Double wow. Wow that people can be so ridiculously rude. And double wow that you called and complained. I don't think you were a coward. I'm not sure many people would have the ability to defend in a polite manner on the spot. Sounds like you handled it perfectly.
Michelle