Dentist

Quite a few months ago my tooth began hurting and pretty soon it was so bad that I couldn't really eat on that side of my mouth.  I kept on putting off going to the dentist, but finally I bit the bullet and went. He checked my tooth, took x-rays, etc and finally said that I probably just have trauma to my teeth from stress.  I tried not to be stressed, but the pain didn't go away.  I went back about a month later and it turns out that I had to have a root canal.  The procedure went well, but by the time I went back to have it done, I had another tooth on the other side of my mouth hurting.  Today I went back and had a crown put on.  It turns out that my tooth on the other side was hurting because an old filling had a crack in it.  The dentist put in a new filling, but now both of my teeth are hurting.  I have a very odd bite in that I can move my jaw forward and backwards and also sideways.   That makes it very difficult to adjust the bite.  So now we have to go back again.  We drive into Plattsburg, NY and the drive is about 1and 1/2 hours unless we have a slow time getting across the border.  Then it can be even longer.  Sometimes it seems like forever to get through customs.  The drive is pleasant enough except in the wintertime.  Today we were supposed to only have snow flurries, but actually it was a continuous snow falling.  Luckily the roads were still good and visibility was great too.
Whenever we are getting near the border and customs, we always hope for a nice customs officer.  One time we had a horrible one that made us go inside and go over every single thing that we had in the car.  It was a woman officer and she was so mean and unpleasant.  She interrogated us for over an hour, asking the same questions over and over again.  She looked over our receipt of what we had purchased while in New York and charged taxes us on several items including a plum that we had eaten while still in the U.S. and also on a soda that we were still drinking that was in the car.  That just doesn't seem right to me, but oh well.  We really just had to pay the extra taxes and keep quiet.  This same officer charged a couple that was next to us an enormous tax on their little puppy that they were bringing with them.  One young man and his Mom missed the last turn off back to the U.S. accidentally and she detained them for hours, not letting them return.  She did not have a kind word or smile for anyone that we saw her dealing with before it was our turn.  She must have really been having a bad day I guess.  Luckily most of the officers are pleasant and those are the ones we want to deal with.