Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Overheard in the BDO: "Stop running!!"

Working today on the front porch annex office. Across the street is a pediatric dentist's office. Now, based on the title of this post and the brief facts just provided, who is yelling to whom and in which direction are they running?

If you guessed: parent yelling to child, you are correct!

If you guessed: running away from the doctor's office, you are INCORRECT!

Dr. Dyson has some sort of magic going on over there that actually makes kids RUN INto his office. A fairly busy street separates Dr. Dyson and I, and often I have seen excited children spring from vehicles parked on MY side of the street, bounce onto the sidewalk and then nearly dash into traffic in their eagerness to get to his office.

I've heard there are Lego's and trains in there. I also know for a fact there are balloons (wailing ensues when the rookie child releases the string just outside the front door). But that can't be all there is to it. Kids are smarter than that. Bribes and toys only go so far. To have a memory so good (or at the very least not bad) of the dentist's office that you literally RUN to get inside... I can't fathom it. But it's a happy thing to witness.

Reason number 6,457 why the BDO rocks: Cool dentist dude across the street.

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