Today’s prompt is: A vignette from your childhood
My mother looked in horror the day the dentist slapped me. I was about five years old and my first visit to the dentist. I wasn’t co-operative, squirming and moving all the while.
The result has been a lifelong fear of the dentist. It’s a place I avoid whenever I can.
In the days when I was a child, the dentist was not the place it is today. Pain was part of the game. One dentist, I went to had his drill set up so that when you looked up there was a train running along an imaginary track as the drill worked its torture on you. Needless to say watching the train was the furthest thing from my mind.
Morpethroad 
You and I must have gone to the same dentist, Michael. My first experience included the above slap, as well as a clamp in my mouth to force it open. Oh, and the smell of alcohol…from the dentists mouth 😥
I don’t recall any alcohol Lyn, just the terror and assault….
That was an excellent topic to share. Did it EVER dredge up memories!
Sometimes I wonder if being a sadist was a prerequisite for being a dentist in those days. I was allergic to the old-fashioned novocaine (some preservative in it or something). I started turning blue and couldn’t breathe.
Thanks. I think I was just allergic to dentists.
What horrors this brings back to mind! Thank God it has changed for our kids.
And for us as well. Horrible memories.
I had 5 teeth filled without any numbing — the stuff then made me dizzy. I remember nothing of that visit, thank god! I do remember when another dentist stopped drilling, I asked if he was finished. Rather than a slap, he yelled “Shut up.” And, he was supposed to be a children’s dentist.
Great childhood story of torture and mayhem.
Thanks Lorraine so many of us had horror tales from the dentist…
A bonding experience.
The only bond I ever felt was the closeness of a young Brazilian dentist I once lay beneath….
I was thinking of a bond between the dentally tortured, not with the torturers. However, you present another picture . . .
It certainly was…lol
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