when I was walking down Rattray St today, a tooth fell from a window above me and landed about 50 cms from my feet.

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It was a molar. In fairly good condition. I briefly thought that it might have been funny to take it up to the building from whence it fell, find the owner and tell them to take better care of their things, but then I started to feel like I was in some short story, so I just left it on the ground.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

!!!!

I think this needs to be made into a film of some sort.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

dammit I should have kept that tooth.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 02:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I briefly thought that it might have been funny..."
words of wisdom: always do something if you thought it might be funny even if only briefly.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 02:18 (twenty-three years ago)

if I lived by those wise words I think I would be living in some sort of sick hell by now.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 02:26 (twenty-three years ago)

god, why aren't more people amazed by my falling tooth story???!!!! I suppose you all live in towns where it positively rains teeth.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

rainy it scares me more than anything.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 03:19 (twenty-three years ago)

there was no blood on it or anything.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

rainy it was probably a fiendish trap & you were lucky to come off so lightly from the encounter.

i had a jug of tea fall out of a window at me while walking along te ngae road, but that was attributable to casual malice (& was far less bizarre).

― Ess Kay (esskay), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 03:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, rainy, we are too amazed to type, and gently troubled at the naming of Rattray St also.

― Rebecca (reb), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

actually rainy, its quite common for that to happen here in america. I gues Nex Zealand is a littel behind the times. Do you guys even HAVE toothumbrellas? I doubt it. eh , eh ,

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 04:29 (twenty-three years ago)

a big block of ice fell from the sky here the other week.

It's Zeus.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 07:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I think this story is amazing, and if I was a movie producer I would buy the rights. I might have added a few more lesbians to make it a bit more avant garde, though.
When my friend dropped her twistie we were going to make a movie about it, including flashbacks of the twistie's life and a ritualistic dance to symbolise its passing. Think anyone would be interested?

― Livvie, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 08:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Erm, what's a twistie?

― Plinky (Plinky), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 08:11 (twenty-three years ago)

this reminds of the multiple stories i heard about turtles falling from the sky in my neighborhood. i hope they had good shells.

― Honda, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 08:18 (twenty-three years ago)

man, someone's gonna get lucky when they get attacked by that huge toothy bird, yo, cos now it's just gonna be all gummy and nonfearsome.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 08:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Have you ever seen the film Q: The Winged Serpent?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 08:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Now what would really get me interested is if you had a tooth fall at your feet and you were standing in a wide open paddock with nothing but clear blue sky above....but wait.....what's that flying way up there?.......is that.......OMG it's a fairy!

― Perry Bernard (panterus), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 08:34 (twenty-three years ago)

wouldn't a fairy be carrying loads of teeth? I mean, they don't make a separate trip each time do they?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 08:44 (twenty-three years ago)

of course! the motherfuckin' tooth fairy! maybe she got a hole in the bag, and one fell out, but the next one was like a molar, and it plugged p the wee hole so no more fell out. yeah, that sounds plausible, yo.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 08:49 (twenty-three years ago)

did the poor kid whose tooth it was miss out financially? I assume there's some accounting system in Fairyland so that no money is given until the tooth is handed over.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, there is. There's also a Quality Control Fairy who checks the teeth to see if they have been looked after, properly brushed and fluorided etc etc. If they are not good enough to get into The Hall Of Perfect Teeth, then the kid gets no dosh. It's cruel, but fair.

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)

damn, i didn't realise those bitches were so corporate.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 09:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What do they do with the teeth afterwards? Is there a Fairyland Tooth Mountain?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 09:01 (twenty-three years ago)

My parents told me they made little fairy furniture from them, but that kinda puzzled me - wouldn't your bum get cold on a tooth chair? You could do yourself an injury on the sharp bits too.

― Plinky (Plinky), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

they sand those bits down.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

molars are like the "Work Horse" of teeth, and are mostly underated.

― gazza, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 09:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Perhaps they should form the Molar Union and demand recognition?

― Plinky (Plinky), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Dentures already have. When they have a grievance the shop steward shouts "Everybody out!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I have a new sub plot for my NaNoWriMo novel!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

words of wisdom: always do something if you thought it might be funny even if only briefly.

Better words of wisdom, which certainly apply to me, and probably others "If the thought of doing something makes me giggle for more than 30 seconds then i am not allowed to do it"

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I have a new sub plot for my NaNoWriMo novel!

And *this* time you finish it! ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, it's definitely best to bug out on those potential short story scenarios before you find yrself involved in all manner of unpleasantnesses. i woke up noseless once, but i wasn't falling for that one.

― cameron, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I keep imagining some sort of sitcom scenario where a little kid thinks the Tooth Fairy took the tooth, but his mother has it, and she's trying to hide it from him, but it gets harder and harder and more complicated and in the end she's forced to toss it out the window to avoid crushing his beautiful Tooth Fairy dreams.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

My mom still has a letter I wrote to the Tooth Fairy when I was little. I asked her (Fairy) to meet me in secret that afternoon. If I wasn't at home, she could try me at my grandparents house. I put the letter inside a drawer because I figured if she was real, she would just KNOW it was there.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Well? Don't leave us in suspense...did she show up?

― Nick A., Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I might have added a few more lesbians to make it a bit more avant garde, though.

Wise indeed: there is nothing that is not improved by Added Lesbians.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Except possibly soufflés.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely it depends on the size of the souffle.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

that is a very odd story. are you sure it was a real tooth?

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Would it be a less odd story if it were a fake tooth?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

It was a truly real tooth! I actually can't believe what a fool I was to leave it there. I went back that way on my way home, but it was gone.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

as for the lesbians, I think I pretty much had that sorted.

― rainy (rainy), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

A twistie is a cheese flavoured crispy treat

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

This is an omen which means that an important change will soon occur in your life, possibly involving a visitor from far away.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, martin, it would. because it would be very strange that someone had a fake tooth, and stranger yet that they'd throw it out the window, BUT the idea of a random detached body part (even if it is only a tooth) is far stranger.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 22:30 (twenty-three years ago)

people should throw strange things out of windows more often.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

The problem was that in earlier years the things thrown out of windows weren't strange, but all too familiar.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

What if they thought it was a real tooth, but then discovered that it was fake, e.g. by putting it on the radiator and watching it melt, or discovering the words "Made in Taiwan" in tiny lettering whilst examining it with a magnifying glass? They would surely say, "Hmmph! The tooth fairy's not going to be interested in this one!" and throw it out the window in disgust.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

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