Wednesday, February 16, 2011

I'm sorry but I thought I heard you say twenty-eight thousand dollars

Maybe that is surprising to you, but I did have to ask that three times. Yeah, you can have a smile like [fill in the blank] or own a new Audi, but you may not own them both, for that amount of money.


Actually, I heard this once before from a dentist at a fashionable practice downtown last year. That time I thought they were kidding. I like my Yelp buddies, but I am learning that serious stuff needs serious recommendations. They may recommend a restaurant but not an endodontist, periodontist or oral surgeon. 


For this I will take the recommendation of a complete stranger that I met in an art gallery in old Hillsboro that just happened to be there when Darrell and I popped in. She was my age, grew up in Hillsboro and someone that I had a good feeling about.


I am learning to trust serendipity. It's not like the chances of it are any better than thoughtful research; it seems to have about the same success rate, but I just feel better about something that just falls into place.


I felt good about the Hillsboro Dental Center as I walked into the door. It smelled like a dental office. It looked like a dental office. There were no aromatherapy gadgets, bubbling Zen fountains. No one offered me a hot wax treatment or an iPod to listen to. I got my choice: "Time" magazine or "Good Housekeeping".









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