A Pastoral Scene!

A long time ago I got in a pretty bad car wreck. I had numerous injuries that were pretty life threatening. I stayed in the hospital for a couple of weeks. In the melee I had broken my jaw and had to have it wired shut. That is a tough deal. Well, the day finally came to take the wires out of my mouth. I had been looking forward to the day it would happen, but I also realized there is probably no easy way to get wires out of your head without hurting you a little bit. So I just assumed they knocked you out and when you woke up the deal was over.

I had made my appointment early. I wanted to get it over with. I went in to the oral surgeon’s office. A nice nurse grabbed me and told me she was going to lead me around and show me all the examination rooms in the office. I found this a bit odd and asked why she would do that. The nurse explained to me that since getting these wires pulled out was a bit traumatizing the rooms were set up to make you as much at ease as possible. She told me all the rooms had “pastoral” scenes painted on the wall and all had a big window with trees, birds, frogs and such you could watch. The whole experience was based on “pastoral” type deals to ease your mind.

Well, my mind was not impressed. I told her I did not think any type of pastoral scene was going to help me out. She asked me what I thought I needed to get through the ordeal. I looked straight at her and told her, “Just knock me out! When I wake up I want it to be all over. I don’t want pastoral scenes.”