Dentist’s appointment

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When John came home on Thursday, his mother told him that she had made an appointment for him with the dentist. It was on Friday at 4 o’clock. John was not happy. He had football training on Fridays and did not have time to go to the dentist.

“Mum, I have told you thousands of times not to make appointments for me!” said John.

 

“But you were up all night with toothache,” said his mother.

“Mum, I’m 17 years old, so I can make my own appointments. And, I no longer have toothache.”

So before his mother went shopping, she called the dentist and cancelled the appointment.

Half an hour later his father came home. John looked at his father and saw that his hair was very short. His father had been to the hairdresser. They talked about how John’s mother had always made appointments for the two of them. Although John’s father was always happy with this, John didn’t like it so much.

John went up to his room with a bowl of ice cream to do his homework and then chat with his friends on Facebook. He had just finished his ice cream when he felt a pain in his mouth. “Oh, no, the toothache is back,” he thought.

 He went into the bathroom, found the painkillers and took two. “Perhaps it will be better in the morning,” John said to himself. But that night the pain got worse. John couldn’t sleep. When he returned to the bathroom for the third time he met his mother.

“Is there a problem?” she asked. “Can’t you sleep?” Then she saw the bottle of painkillers in his hand.

“Has the toothache come back?” she asked.

“Yes, it has. Maybe that appointment was not a bad idea after all. You didn’t cancel it, did you?” asked John.

“Sorry John, but yes I did. You will have to make a new appointment in the morning.”

In the morning a very tired John rang the dentist and asked for an appointment to see the dentist. The receptionist told him that he could see the dentist next Thursday at 10 o’clock. When John asked for an earlier appointment, she told him that next Thursday was the first available appointment.

“I have terrible toothache and it is getting more and more painful. Is there nothing you can do? My mother made an appointment for me for this afternoon but I told her to cancel it. And now I really need to see the dentist fast,” John said.

The receptionist checked her appointment book and told John that the appointment his mother had made was still available, so he could come that afternoon. John was relieved. He put the phone down, looked at his mother and said, “This afternoon at 4 o’clock.”