A piece of advice if you ever have a cavity:
Do not try to eat an empanada for lunch when you still have a little bit of Novocaine in your mouth because then you might think you have chewed up and swallowed all of your empanada when you really haven't and the empanada chunks will be just hanging out in your cheeks making you look like a squirrel.
--my friend Helen. Clearly the reason we are friends is obvious.
18 people with too much time on their hands:
That's a very helpful bit of advice, thank you.
Also, never stick a sharpened pencil in you ear and grind it around in there if you feel a tickle.
Thank you very much for that advice ~ I will be sure to keep it stowed at the back of my head.
Although I don't intend to get any more cavities. But just in case...
Good to know! I tend to drool and dribble drinks after novocaine too so I say steer clear of all food n' drink until all sensation returns especially in work in the conference room in front of 20 people. Cringe! yes I did!
Oh honey, don't you know you are only suppose to drink chocolate shakes after dentistry?! Only food groups that require a straw.....
I'm glad we cleared that up. I've never really been sure how to handle that whole Novocaine-Empanada issue.
I try to stick with vodka after all major or minor procedures of any kind, but I'll keep this in mind for friends and family, thanks!
It is worse, when you discover, upon 'thawing' that you have chewed, & possibly swallowed, half your inner cheek flesh!
Jonah that is good advice, but the truth is what usually happens when you chew empanadas with a little bit of novacaine still left is you keep chewing and you end up chewing all the insides of your cheek too!!!
Yowch!
I finished reading up your regurgitated 'hands free' essay and it was MARVELOUS!! WOW!!!
Not regurgitated for naught!
You definitely have a way of grabbing at heartstrings with your words.
Thank you.
I vote for the alcohol only solution too! Frozen Margaritas are therapeutic, I'm sure!
You all have excellent suggestions. I will share them with Helen, when she finishes eating the empanada. It was a big one.
Pixie -- thanks for your nice words. I'm working on another story right now that will grab those heartstrings, yank them out of your body, stomp on them, and leave them bleeding and unconscious in the gutter. I'm a sentimental fool.
I like to think this is good advice, even when I'm not under the influence of Novacaine. I might be otherwise mouthily numb and need to remember this.
You are a true public servant.
I will try to remember that :) It's the kind of advice I would remember when wondering if spinach is between my front teeth and discretely trying to look in a subway car
I try not to eat anything after novacaine. (Nut now I have the Green Day song stuck in my head. Thanks.)
Truly, your story concerning airports was horrifying, and a real lesson in not listening to my therapist for any reason. Since I will not be able to afford to fly anyplace anytime in the near future (I really can't bring myself to feel bad about that or anything) I will probably not enter an airport for the rest of my life.
yuck.
Ok, slacker, where's my funny?!?!?
but no pressure...
Karen -- oh, that wasn't my intention at all. I just wanted you to feel bad for me. I enjoy sympathy, not empathy :)
G -- workin' on it. Kind of got myself wedded to this, one story a month thing. But if you want to pay me by the hour, I might work faster. Probably not, but it might be worth the shot.
I'm curious. Did Helen take out and reform the cheek-saved empanada into a ravioli and eat it again? I bet she would have if she had a toaster handy. Nothing says "yummy" like pre-chewed-empanada-as-toasted-ravioli. I eat it all the time.
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