Bridget's like a shark - she has two rows of teeth. Well, OK, she would have had if we hadn't pulled the baby ones out. She's had fangs for the past 2 months and probably would have kept them until Halloween if we'd thought enough about the effect for the school Halloween party (not that I'm really keen on that American tradition). I've been trying to encourage her to wobble them out for the last few weeks but she seems a little averse to the crunching noise.
It all came to a point last Saturday. We've had Takako (my matron of honour and Japanese host sister), Otera and Fukuda-san staying with us for a few days. Takako and Otera have pretty awful teeth as they freely admit themselves. They took one look at Bridget's fangs and showed her inside their own mouths and told her to visit the dentist to have them out or face the less than beautiful consequences. I then told Bridget that she'd need to get to wobbling them out within 2 weeks or the dentist would be booked for the Monday fortnight. But as is typical of Ben, he came up with the added incentive which seemed to make the difference. He suggested that she would earn MOP10 for each tooth that she successfully managed to pull and if she did so within that one evening she'd get an added bonus of MOP40 for the lot. Now, this would have been an enormous saving for us as each extracted tooth at the dentist has cost us MOP400 so far. Within 30 minutes she'd had one out and while the adults were out to dinner, we received a telephone call to the restaurant from an ecstatic child calling in her dues. Maybe she is her father's daughter...or was it the fear of less than perfection in her looks?
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
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