“Laugh now, Funny-Boy!”
And other unappreciated remarks from my dentist.
AT the dentist’s office, the drill singing as it is hogging out my molars, my arms restrained, while they joke about the bite marks on the inside of my cheeks.
You may remember this quote as part of one of my recent posts.
It was unprofessional.
That got me thinking. There was actually more than that one occasion that, in retrospect, I find to be offensive and at the very least unprofessional. However, HE is the one who chose that profession, not I. He too could have stepped up and become a writer if he had wanted.
Especially in the light of my recent story in which I announce my full intent to throw caution to the wind, and tumble down this dark path of hit-or-miss, self-fulfilling humor.
I know that serious scholars have long since pronounced my writing to have flat-lined somewhere around my grade school days, and my sense of humor to be barely better than locker room banter.
This brings us to the art of persistence.
Is “persistor” really a word?
Persistence is defined as continuing to do something that even the persistor recognizes to be a waste of time.
In my earlier days, I sent to Battle Creek, MI for a pair of sea divers that when one’s mom would fill the club foot with baking soda, or something, they would swim back up from the bottom of your tub. Somewhere in Rome, GA, there are two shriveled plastic divers on the bottom of my ex-tub, and if I still lived there, I’d still be watching for them to make their move.
The moral of the story.
So, I do know a thing or two about hanging in wherever. But unrequited writing is tough. When an author is two hundred fifty words into a story and still doesn’t know where it’s going, the only thing that can possibly rescue it is the wonderful sense of humor and the chiseled good looks of the writer.
Like my dentist, though, not everyone appreciates a good joke.
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