DENTIST WOES

Do you know many words you can make using only the letters found in the word DELIGHT?

die, tie...

DELIGHT must be the brand name for my dentist's light. During the four hours I sat in that chair this morning, lowered so that most the blood was rushing to my head, I would look up and see that light and the word DELIGHT pasted across the top. As hands were thrust into my mouth, I would focus my eyes up and start making words...

lied, tied...

They took molds (hit, git...), made eight of my teeth longer (lie, hie...), two of them pointier (lid, hid...), scraped, polished and reshaped (deli, light...), and charged me both arms, one leg and two-third of my head (glide, tile...).

And... I have to go back tomorrow and again next week and who knows how many more times before they have bled me dry and allowed me to spend my days talking and eating without a thick piece of plastic surrounding my top teeth.

leg, led...