# It's funny when someone else gets a root canal.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 1, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-funny-when-someone-else-gets-a-root-canal/306394 "2005-06-01T16:23:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-funny-when-someone-else-gets-a-root-canal/306394/1 "2005-06-01T16:23:47Z")

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My friend is having a root canal. She hates pain, dentists, needles, etc., so she opted to get nitrous oxide this go around to cope with the whole experience. I just got an email from her:

> [@scared in the dentist's chair](#):
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> Nitrous did NOTHING for me. My tooth is supposed to be numbing etc, but I don’t feel like its doing anything. They haven’t started the drilling stuff yet. And I have to come back in 4 weeks to do this all over again! Get me out of here.

Because I am a bad, bad person, I think this is the funniest thing I have ever read! I know that I will be paid back; I am sure that when I pick her up to take her home, she’ll barf in my car. And then I will be sorry. But until then, the image of her sucking the nitrous while blackberrying furiously is just so perfect.