My Family2000

Ben:
What, no school today?

Janey:
No, I've got the dentist.

Ben:
Ah, great... What? What do you mean? Hang on a minute, I'm the dentist! I can't remember booking you in, unless the prospect was so awful I screened you out.

Susan:
I booked her into another dentist.

Ben:
You did what?

Susan:
Janey's had an appointment with you for six months now and you keep fobbing her off.

Ben:
I do *not* keep fobbing her off, I've been fobbing her forward.

Susan:
Fine. But if we wait that long, she'll be able to take her teeth out and post them to you.

Ben:
Susan, paying patients come first.

Susan:
That's right, your family always comes second.

Ben:
Against TV, golf, and football that's not bad going. Where did you find this dentist, on a card in a phone box?

Susan:
Yellow pages.

Ben:
Oh, yellow pages! Oh, I see. Well they don't take *anyone* in yellow pages.

Janey:
Oh calm down, Dad, one dentist is pretty much the same as another.

Ben:
[shouting] They most certainly are not!

Janey:
No, you're right. Because some dentists aren't rude, grumpy and think an effective painkiller is shouting, "Shut up!"

Ben:
It is effective. It makes me feel better.