When I was a kid they had to put me to sleep to do dental work! I would scream and bite and throw a fit!!
So for the story....
I used to work with a woman in SC who was
very Southern and
very prim and proper. She spoke with a heavy blue-blooded Southern accent. Her name wasn't Judy... she was Judith, and she didn't hesitate to correct you, either...
One day we were talking about dentists and I told her how much I hated to go them. With a dead serious look on her face, she said to me with her slow drawl "Why Sherry Lynn, you need to do what I do when I go to the dentist. I sit back in that chair, reach over and grab his privates, look him dead in the eye and say 'Now we aren't going to hurt each other are we?'....And I've never had a problem at the dentists."
I laughed SO HARD!!!! It was SO out of character for her and SO funny!! Now everytime I even think about a dentist, I chuckle! That little story has gotten me through so many visits to the dentist that it is priceless to me!!