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She entered the house of horrors, gingerly. The dreaded moment had finally arrived. The white coated nurse greeted her impersonally then pointed the way. She had experienced crippling fear before but could not banish the apprehension.
Ushered into what seemed like the theatre of doom, trembling inside she blurted out: ‘I’m awfully sorry, I’m so wound up I just hate going to the dentist. There’s nothing I can do about it - I’d rather have a baby’.
‘Make your mind up dear so I can decide how to adjust the chair’, said the dentist standing there in his blue rubber gloves.

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    Neville Hunt over 6 years ago

    Haha! Love it. Very funny and the end took me quite by surprise as I thought maybe you’d changed genre through some kind of Paulian conversion. Mrs H laughed too😃😂

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    Steve McBrevity over 6 years ago

    Prompted by a visit to the ventriloquist yesterday in Harpenden!

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    Neville Hunt over 6 years ago

    We have discovered the most wonderful dentist ever. Her manner is brilliant and she takes seriously the fact that you might be shitting yourself as the nurse stands by with a hose to wash you down!

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