Update at 11
I waited 2.5 hours until the dentist deigned to see me.
'Your tooth slipped off.'
Shaking head: 'Not exactly. The peg broke. I mean, here it is.' (handing over turnip-mined treasure)
All blood draining from his face (seriously): 'Oh no! You see, this is a custom designed zirconium peg. I can't use metal in your head.'
(He is right about that. This is because I am constantly on the run from Magneto. If I allowed a crown that contained metal, I would be pretty much at his mercy. This reminds me: none of the soldiers in X-men 3 had ANY dental work that contained metal. Because if they did, Magneto would have killed them like THAT).
'No, you can't use metal in my head,' I agreed. 'Temporarily it's okay though.'
'Would it be okay if you walked around without your tooth for a while?'
'Ugh... What do you mean 'for a while''?
'You're here for good, right? You're not going back to America?'
'Oh. For a WHILE??? Yeah, I'm here for good.'
'Oh good then.'
'Uhm... so I need a new crown?'
'Yes, we have to redo the whole thing.'
'Brilliant. Brilliant. So what if I have a date?'
He looks at me. I can tell he feels sorry for me.
'We'll put the tooth back in using a metal peg, temporarily. And we will take an imprint early next week and then get a new one of everything.'
'Thank you so much.'
So now I have my old tooth back in. I have express orders not to bite into anything dense. Particularly turnips.
p.s.: I know zirconium is a metal. It can't be manipulated by Magneto, however, so keep your snide comments to... oh shit. I just looked it up on Wikipedia:
Zirconium zinc alloy becomes magnetic at temperatures below 35 K. Oxidation states of zirconium include +4, although +3 and +2 can be obtained.
Fine, fine, so I've been at Magneto's mercy all this time. I hate you.
posted by Balázsy András at 7:20 PM
3 Comments:
Um, ya, if you're at temperatures below 35 Kelvins, you're pretty much dead anyways. Magneto or no Magneto...
Man, if you have a date, go there without your tooth. If the lady has a good sense of humour and is compassionate, she will not mind. Instead, she will love your bank robber image:)
You simply cannot bear staying away long from various doctors' lobbies:)) Not bad places for flirting I am telling you:)
OBVIOUSLY Magneto can magnetize things that are even a tiny bit magnetizable. That's all I'm saying. NORMALLY zirconium is ONLY magnetizable at 35 Kelvin - but for MAGNETO, it's frigging magnetizable at a tropical beach resort while he is sipping on a pina colada.
Kevin, I did not look like a bank robber. I looked like matter loosely surrounding a very black hole and about to be sucked in.
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