one-sided conversation

ok, so....i am back from the dentist and will move on toward my long-awaited nap....have nothing else that i can do....under the circumstances.....my dentist decided that now was the time to replace old fillings....and to do that meant numbing both the front and right side of my mouth.....and even now that i am home i have a hard time bringing my lips together close enough to sip tea.....and when i called my spouse from the dentist's parking lot to tell him that i was not going to switch out my car for his truck to go get a christmas tree, i could hardly annunciate words clearly when lips were involved....but i digress from the dentist himself.....who decided at this particular dental appointment to recall events he had attended at the restaurant i once owned....and to talk at great lengths about how the newest in a series of new owners have run the business into the ground.....gentle readers......the last thing i needed, given my numb nose and lips, and jaw, was to have to sit and listen to things i try very hard not to dwell upon........