Q & A

note: backdated entry from 20 July

Q: How do you deliver the object in the picture below to Australia?


Clue: look at the environment

My good friend , Jared, tasked me with collecting and delivering his retainers before he left for Australia . The retainers came with the yellow container.

To be sure, I have a phobia of dentists. They give me the creeps. So it was with a apprehensive heart that I arrived at the National Dental Centre, in Outram.



I will have you believe me that when I reached there, everyone was looking at everyone else's teeth, wondering what's wrong with yours? I certainly had that feeling. But then again, I may be a little too sensitive. After all, I haven't been to the dentist's in quite a while. (read: since secondary school)

Making sure my lips were sealed, I took the elevator to clinic 5.


Clinic 5

I was late for the appointment. Twenty minutes late to be exact. The appointment card was given to the receptionist and her brows furrowed in dissaproval. I waited for my life to flash past me.

"You're late,"she said.

With that, she left to check with the doctor. She returned with a queue number and a weird expression that said you're lucky this time round. I felt I was.

Collection was a very simple affair of the doctor, a Dr. Ivan Lim, handing the contents to me in a zip lock bag.

"You're Jared friend?" He said, a thought bubble thought out loud.

"So how are you planning to deliver this to him?" Ah. Which brings me to the subject of today's entry.


A: By post

Anti-climatic I know. But who cares? It only costs $1.60 and comes with a special envelope with a bubble wrap-lined inside.


Bubbles

Opening the rubbish chute look-alike of the letter box, I took the first step in sending the container overseas. But that was about the time I realised that it was just that - The container.

The retainers were still with me, happily residing on the moulds of his teeth.

I hate myself sometimes.

Update: I have since sent the retainers by courier to Jared. Both containers and retainer are in the loving care of their master now, thank goodness.