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ASSISTANT:
If you just could wait in
here a moment Mr. MacEnroe.
MACENROE:
Thank you very much...
Good afternoon.
SMITH:
Good afternoon. Are
you here to see the dentist?
MACENROE:
Yeah, unfortunately. I
hate going to the dentist. This is like a
nightmare
for me.
SMITH:
Really?
MACENROE:
Yeah. Have you been to
this dentist before?
SMITH:
Well, uh, not
actually, but I've seen, uh, several others
in this city and, uh, unfortunately I've had
some, uh, very bad luck.
MACENROE:
I'd rather prefer you
not to talk about it, but...
SMITH:
Well, let me just...
MACENROE:
I'm feeling a little
nervous you know.
SMITH:
Let me just tell you.
It, it, it, uh, just a few stories. All
right?
MACENROE:
Can you make them
short?
SMITH:
Of course. Of course.
MACENROE:
And with a happy
ending or something?
SMITH:
Of course. Of course.
Of course. Um, well, uh. just about two
months ago I was going in for a simple
cleaning. Right?
MACENROE:
Yeah.
SMITH:
And, uh, well I was
having my teeth checked and cleaned and
before I know it I'm, uh, being put to sleep
because the doctor thinks I need a root canal.
Right?
MACENROE:
Huh? "I need a what"?
Oh, don't, no, don't, don't carry on.Tell me, tell me another one 'cos
that sounds too complicated.
SMITH:
No, no, no, no, no,
no. Not bad. Anyway, he puts me to sleep,
right?
MACENROE:
Well, I supposed
that's an advantage if you're, if you're
asleep then you, you don't realise, but I
suppose the worst thing is when you wake up.
SMITH:
Yeah, yeah. At the
moment you don't, but as soon you wake you
realise that, um, something horrible and
tragic has happened.
MACENROE:
No?
SMITH:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
MACENROE:
No. I'm sure it can't be
as bad as you're... you're saying it is.
SMITH:
No, that's it, well,
yeah it can be. It can be even worse. Yeah.
MACENROE:
Oh.
SMITH:
Yeah. Yeah.
MACENROE:
You're making me feel
much better actually 'cos, 'cos when I came in
the room I was feeling nervous and now I'm
like hysterical really, but never mind if you,
if it makes you feel happy to carry on telling
me these stories and make me feel worse then,
then go ahead.
SMITH:
May I?
MACENROE:
Yeah. Well, why not? As
long as you're enjoying yourself, then that's
the only important thing really.
SMITH:
Anyway, all right. I, I,
I had the root canal, right?
MACENROE:
Yeah.
SMITH:
I wake up and I realise
that, uh, my , um, you know how they, they put
the bibs
on when you go to the dentist to...
MACENROE:
Yeah.
SMITH:
to to sop up the...
MACENROE:
Well, I haven't been to
the dentist for a while,
but, yeah, tell me.
SMITH:
Anyway, they put these
bibs on you, right? To sop up any saliva or
spit
or... or blood that, y'know, that might come
out of your mouth.
MACENROE:
Blood?
SMITH:
Yeah, blood. And perhaps
some...
MACENROE:
Have you, did you go to
a dentist or did you go to a butcher?
SMITH:
Well, um, he called
himself a dentist, but, uh, what he did to me
was, was really the work of a butcher.
MACENROE:
All right. It's been
quite nice weather recently. Hasn't it?
