When you're smiling......

“If I ever lose my mouth, all my teeth north and south, if I ever lose my mouth, I won’t have to talk no more....”

Can’t even begin to imagine a Smith what can’t talk no more but all my teeth......ah well, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.....
Long before I was diagnosed as a Diabetic, my dentist told me that I ate too much candy.....I denied it, of course, becuz candy is sumthin’ I never did much of at any time in my life....it wuz hard to come by when I wuz a kid, mostly at holidays ‘n such....even Halloween which is a major candy event in t’days world didn’t bring that much in the way of sweets when I wuz a boy....’Course, the fact that there wuz a war goin’ on and sugar wuz rationed might’a had a little t’do with it.....’n we didn’t get a lot of soda pop (we just called it pop) when we were kids.....not like t’day....
Come to think on it, World War II wuz pretty healthy diet-wise....shortages on sugar, fats, meats etc, left the at home’s eating a lot of veggies ‘n healthy stuff...ah well, I don’t think the kids of that generation felt abused by the lack of candy....
Anyway, my dentist kept tellin’ me to lay off the sweets, ‘n if he’d only known, he could’a told me that I wuz what they call t’day, pre-diabetic....
All that, coupled with poor dental hygiene (I brushed but didn’t floss) and the tendency in my younger days to hit people in their fists with my mouth led to the loss of several teeth...which, sumwhat inevitably led to the loss of more 'n more teeth over the years and sum pricey dental bills....
which brings me to the latest traumatic event in my life that I’d rather not be confessing to....In three weeks, I’m going to have a b’day....it’s only a week ‘tween my b’day and Kellyes b’day, so we’re planning a celebration t’gether ‘n trying to figure out a restaurant acceptable to ev’ryone.....during that same three weeks, I’m prob’ly gonna trade what's left of my old, high mileage teeth for some brand spankin’ new synthetics.....so it prob’ly won’t matter to me where we eat as I might be having a restricted diet anyway........ah well, with any luck atall, I’ll end up with a nicer smile.....