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Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth

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it grinds my gears sometimes the way medical professionals want to take over your life, for purely preventive procedures (it would be different if there were something actually wrong, of course!).


Not only is a colonoscopy an invasive procedure, the preparation takes over your life too. A whole list of stuff not to eat or take the entire week before (e.g., no dietary supplements, no advil); and the preparation the day before is just awful. Then, you have find someone to drive you there and back, which means trying to coordinate your schedule, their schedule, the doctor's schedule....

Yeah, I know it's way way better to make sure there is no cancer present than it is to get cancer and not know about it until its too late.....I can certainly appreciate the importance on an intellectual level and still fervently wish there were a less invasive way to go about it!
 
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People who come over to my house and then complain about the cats, like I should put them away. As far as I'm concerned, the cats live here, you don't. If you don't like cats, no one said you had to visit anyway.
 
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You know what really grinds my gears? Child car seat manufacturers. Unless there's a law such that it's illegal to make a rear facing car seat that allows enough space for the driver's seat to be anywhere but all the way forward, I'm blaming them for what a pain in the *** it is for me to figure out how to either drive comfortably or allow a front seat passenger in my car.
 
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One of my dogs. Specifically the one that doesn't say anything when she need to go outside.

It's getting really tiresome to wake up every so often with her runny poo on the floor near my bed.
 
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One minor yet annoying thing many people do is pay no attention when they are putting on their jacket or coat. I've seen people knock over glasses in crowded restaurants and whack other people across the face with their sleeves as they swing the jacket up and around wildly and blindly. :mad:
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
One of my dogs. Specifically the one that doesn't say anything when she need to go outside.

It's getting really tiresome to wake up every so often with her runny poo on the floor near my bed.
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My dog ground my gears this weekend. Apparently on Friday he decided that sheetrock tasted good.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
One of my dogs. Specifically the one that doesn't say anything when she need to go outside.

It's getting really tiresome to wake up every so often with her runny poo on the floor near my bed.
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Another dog related issue - Now the snow cover is gone, I picked up about 30-40 pounds of poop in the back yard yesterday. (2 medium to big dogs)
 
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Subscribed because I hate resubscribing to all these threads.
 
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Dentists. They're almost arrogant enough to be considered doctors. No, I do not want to sit and chat with you for 30 minutes about the scarlet fever I had when I was 7 (should never have written that on the form!) only to find out that you won't clean my teeth since this is my first appointment with you, and I now have to schedule a second appointment (and pay a second co-pay) to get x-rays and then, and only then, may I be privileged enough to be in the club of people whose teeth you will clean - at a 3rd appointment with a 3rd co-pay. I'm the customer, you're a service provider. Clean my Foxtrotting teeth.
 
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LynahFan said:
Dentists. They're almost arrogant enough to be considered doctors. No, I do not want to sit and chat with you for 30 minutes about the scarlet fever I had when I was 7 (should never have written that on the form!) only to find out that you won't clean my teeth since this is my first appointment with you, and I now have to schedule a second appointment (and pay a second co-pay) to get x-rays and then, and only then, may I be privileged enough to be in the club of people whose teeth you will clean - at a 3rd appointment with a 3rd co-pay. I'm the customer, you're a service provider. Clean my Foxtrotting teeth.
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The hell?
 
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LynahFan said:
Dentists. They're almost arrogant enough to be considered doctors. No, I do not want to sit and chat with you for 30 minutes about the scarlet fever I had when I was 7 (should never have written that on the form!) only to find out that you won't clean my teeth since this is my first appointment with you, and I now have to schedule a second appointment (and pay a second co-pay) to get x-rays and then, and only then, may I be privileged enough to be in the club of people whose teeth you will clean - at a 3rd appointment with a 3rd co-pay. I'm the customer, you're a service provider. Clean my Foxtrotting teeth.
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You're finding a new dentist, right? It sounds like this guy is a clock milker.
 
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I get that they want to do an x-ray and understand the current status of the things in your mouth. They're definitely milking you when they do that, but I get it. But to stretch all that process out over three appointments instead of two? THAT is just flat out hosing you.
 
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St. Clown said:
You're finding a new dentist, right? It sounds like this guy is a clock milker.
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Yeah. I've gotten the same story from 3 other dentists, now that I know to ask before I go in for an appointment. Maybe it's just a Southern California thing? Looks like I'm going back to the first guy, since I've at least gotten the first appointment out of the way.
 
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Every dentist I've been to does the whole thing - x-rays, cleaning, and exam - in one appointment; never had a problem.
 
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MadTownSioux said:
Another dog related issue - Now the snow cover is gone, I picked up about 30-40 pounds of poop in the back yard yesterday. (2 medium to big dogs)
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If it is from other people's dogs, I definitely agree. And I would encourage you to bag that **** up, and leave it on their step for them. Tell them you are just "returning the gifts" that their dogs left for you during winter.

If it is from your own dog, I gotta say this is not really an issue if you just pick it up throughout the winter. I live in Minnesota and have an 85-pound four-legged turd factory and just pick it up each time. No mess in the springtime. :)
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Every dentist I've been to does the whole thing - x-rays, cleaning, and exam - in one appointment; never had a problem.
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This. I love my current dentist. She goes the full nine yards and gives full cancer screening and makes sure all of the salivary glands and everything are in tip-top shape. Obviously the hygienist does the cleaning and x-rays. Never had an issue.
 
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johnnypohlfan said:
If it is from your own dog, I gotta say this is not really an issue if you just pick it up throughout the winter. I live in Minnesota and have an 85-pound four-legged turd factory and just pick it up each time. No mess in the springtime. :)
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This. We would either clean it up immediately or have an area that's blown out (while still covering the grass to protect the grass from the cold) and pick it up daily.
 
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Thanks to the jakass who owned this house before and decided to completely solder in the sump pump without any unions whatsoever. I'm now going to have to cut into the discharge line to replace the d*mn thing. And way to install a f*king light socket without a GD switch in the crawl space.

Oh, and sump pumps that go out. Fuuuuuuuuu.
 
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