Yesterday was a work day at our house...the kids were cleaning the van, Nate was continuing to install the new siding on the house, etc. It was finally a day without rain.
Across the road from our place is a small green space the kids like to call "The Woods". So after the boys were done cleaning the van, Nate let them go over there and play "Air Soft." Now, Air Soft is a small pistol like gun that shoots tiny plastic balls. It's not supposed to hurt and the balls are biodegradable so that you can just leave them on the ground. I, personally, have chosen to NOT be shot at by one of these guns so I have no idea the force, velocity or pain that it can incur.
The boys had been over there about an hour when I hear one of them coming across the road, hollering like he's been...well, shot. Turns out that's what had happened.
Just so you know, they wear these big ski goggle type things for face protection. However, I never once thought they should have worn teeth protection. My eight year old runs in the house, hollering and crying and when I look at his face, his big, front, ADULT tooth has been shot off.
I AM NOT KIDDING.
I freak.
I tell the other boy to run back to the woods and find the tooth. It is almost perfectly sheared in half. It looks terrible and from the noise he's making, it's not feeling so great either.
Once I calm him down, I ask him the scale of pain question (1 to 10). He answers, "Oh, it doesn't hurt." What?? Then why are you making such noise? Hmmmm....he doesn't know.
Remember it's a Saturday afternoon of a holiday weekend. So for the next twenty minutes I call several dental clinics from the yellow pages that say "Emergencies Taken" ~ none are open. It seems you must have your emergency btwn 9 and 5, Monday to Friday. I call Telehealth, they ask me a few questions and basically, there's nothing I can do until Tuesday when I can see a dentist.
Boy #1 comes back home, tooth in hand. I put it in a ziploc. By dinner time, the story is embellished and all males in the house think it's it looks cool.
Air Soft Gun - $30
Dental Repair - $800
Being able to say you got your tooth shot off by your brother - Priceless
By the way, the Air Soft is now in the trash can.
aaaccckkk!
ReplyDeleteHilarious..."then why are you making so much noise?"
ReplyDeleteBeing the mother of girls, I can only sympathize...I'm pretty sure this scenario will not play out in my house.
But the 8 year old can now spend the rest of his life starting every story with "remember the time you shot the tooth right out of my head???"
oh ouch! i will not be buying an airsoft, i guess..
ReplyDeletepoor guy, but it IS a great story for him!