ACTORS:
ME: hi, 🙂
S: good friend, mother to the teen (“M”) bebe-sitting The Girlie

SCENE: crowded theater, opening night for G.I. Joe. The opening movie credits are starting to roll.

S: *fiddling w/her phone* Huh! *nudges me*
ME: What?
S: M says that the Girlie lost a tooth.

ME:

ME: Does she say how?
S: Hang on, I’ll ask. *more fiddling with phone Here, look…

CLOSE UP OF PHONE’S SCREEN

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Baby tooth or perm? Is she bleeding?

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ME/S: *hang expectantly over the phone for reply*

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she just turned to me and said huh, lost
a tooth, and then went  on watching the
dvd

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ME/S: 0.o

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The Girlie is fine — one of her baby teeth came out. I didn’t even know the darn thing was *loose* It’s about time for her second half of the year cleaning anywho.
What with the vision and now dental, she’s going to be thoroughly maintained before the school year starts.