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The Trip to the Dentist OfficeThinking to myself, is there any way I could jolt back in my car and head back for home, I enter the tall thin tan colored brick building and walk over to the elevator, hoping that the last half minute of scrubbing my teeth to death pays off. Nervously, I push the up button and patiently wait. The elevator door promptly opens and I am engulfed, the door closes, up I go. Once on the second floor, I exit the elevator and immediately I can smell the mixture of the wintergreen flavored tooth paste and the provoke aroma of bleach out in the hall, along with the sound of the teeth grinding drills which gives, no longer the feeling of the dentist office but of avenue construction area. With the opening of the outer door, the blast of cool air hits me giving a feeling of being naked in the cold brutal winter. I walk in and add my name to the list on the long sign in sheet. Andrew, the slim silver haired woman behind the winter exsanguinous frosted glass sli de window, sees me and lets me know that the dentist will be ready in a split second.While I wait hesitantly for the dental assistant in her crisp clean creme colored uniform to announce my name, I look at the tiny tropical turquoise disperse fish in the large crystal clear tank sitting in the corner of the room. The sleek silent fish dart about performing hide and seek with the plastic mermaid figure sunken deep at the bottom of the tank wit...