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If You Thought It'd Be Fun to Get a Toothache and See a Dentist During a Pandemic, Guess What? It's Not!

I know, I know, I know. Staying socially distant during COVID is quite the drag, and you thought it would be new and exciting and fun to have one of the wisdom teeth you actually planned to extract in Aprilβ€”but couldn’t because COVIDβ€”get infected. You already walked all the steps, streamed all the shows, and…

I know, I know, I know. Staying socially distant during COVID is quite the drag, and you thought it would be new and exciting and fun to have one of the wisdom teeth you actually planned to extract in Aprilβ€”but couldn’t because COVIDβ€”get infected. You already walked all the steps, streamed all the shows, and baked all the bread, and now you wanted to try your hand at this.

β€œYou know what would be rad?” you thought to yourself, β€œWhat if the one tooth that’s so far back in my mouth that I can’t floss it properly got some food caught in it, and the food pinched a nerve that makes my mouth feel like I drank a Molotov cocktail?”

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β€œYou know what would be even cooler?” you continued, β€œWhat if each time my tooth throbbed, everything from my forehead to my nutsack felt like they were being stabbed by bored squirrels with sharp shanks, because somehow that tooth nerve is connected to the nuts nerve, which makes no sense whatsoeverβ€”it’s like wifi connected to water pressureβ€”but should be a fucking blast?” 

β€œAnd then,” you wondered, excitedly, β€œWhat if, while in a deadly pandemic where the most efficient way to get sick is by inhaling infected air, I went to the one place where you can’t wear a mask? I want to replicate all the anxiety of a trust fall, but make it so that if I fall, I might actually dieβ€”or just kill someone I love!”

Anyway, I’m here today to tell you that none of thisβ€”not even the penicillin that makes your pee smell like cat shitβ€”is fun. So if you were considering doing this, try something that would be more exciting, like watching The Passion of the ChristΒ or jamming your face ear first into a file cabinet.

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