Dear readers, I have such a funny story to tell you today. I hope you get as good a laugh out of it as my husband and I did.
Laughter is, after all, one of the healthiest things anyone can do, so I’m sharing this story with all of you in the hope that it adds a boost of wellness to your day!
So here’s what happened ….
This morning, as I was getting ready to leave my dentist’s office after a 9am appointment, the receptionist hands me an envelope with my name on it. She told me the day before over the phone that it was a gift card which was the office’s way of saying “thank you” for some referrals I’ve sent their way in recent months.
Very nice. A classy touch, I thought to myself.
So, I get in my car and drive home. I didn’t open the envelope because it just didn’t cross my mind to do so at that moment.
Boy, am I glad I waited!
After I arrive home, I go into the house and start putting my keys, etc on the kitchen table and notice the envelope again.
I thought it would be nice to share this with my husband, so I walk into his office and tell him about the gift card and begin to open the envelope so we can be surprised and delighted together.
I’m thinking it must be movie tickets or a certificate to a local restaurant or something like that which my husband and I can share on an evening out.
You can imagine my shock and surprise when I pull out the gift card and it is none other than a gift card to (drum roll please) …
DUNKIN’ DONUTS!!!!!
I am not making this up.
For the first few seconds, my husband and I were too stunned to say anything. We just stared at each other with our jaws agape.
And then, we started to laugh, and laugh, and LAUGH!
Oh my, that was so funny. A dentist giving a gift card to Dunkin’ Donuts! The irony of it is almost too much to comprehend!
After we finally stopped laughing many, many minutes later, I finally gasped enough air to ask my husband, “What am I going to do with this? I don’t eat donuts and I don’t drink coffee?”
Always my knight in shining armor, hubby chimed in that Dunkin’ Donuts now shares space with Baskin Robbins, so he can take the kids out for ice cream with it.
Wonderful, I thought. Ice cream for the kids. What a way to promote those cavities (and some repeat business)!
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist.com
THat is hysterical! My first thought, before you said it, was that they were just ensuring some repeat visits! LOL Thanks for sharing that laugh this morning!!!
It think it makes perfect sense… how else are they going to make all that money on crowns and whatnot unless they get you to eat the nastiest sugar filled things possible? They KNOW what they are doing, they aren’t stupid.
Just wait til the MDs are handing out free packs of smokes!
That is so messed up!
When I was a kid, my dentist gave out sugar free gum, and later swithced to $1 store toys. My kids have been to one that gave out certificates to McD’s for a happy meal. It’s amazing what they do to keep the business afloat.
Oh yum, sugar free gum. “You’ll die from the aspartame kids, but chew that gum!” My dentist, even as a child in the late 50’s, gave out sugar laden toothpaste and a brush.
I don’t know why dentists would have to drum up business – people are their own worst enemies in this scenario. Besides dentists live in expensive homes and work tues – thurs. Must be a tough life.
I went to an oral surgeon last year to get ONE tooth pulled, because my regular dentist said he couldn’t do it because the nerves of that tooth were wrapped around the nerves of the tooth next to it and he was afraid he’d damage the other, good tooth. Didn’t matter, the oral surgeon botched it and now my “good” tooth is rotting anyhow because he damaged the entire tooth. For this I paid him $498. Plus I had to go in on a Wednesday and then I wasn’t supposed to lift anything over 10 pounds for the next few days, so that involved closing my business for three days. All in all, the damn tooth cost me over $750.
The least these airheads could do is hand out a decent gift — or how about just nothing at all? A pen and notepad would be better than a card to dunkin’ donuts. Sheesh.
Crazy funny!!! My dentist does this fund raiser every Oct. for the troops. He has everyone bring in bags of candy and they send it overseas! I think that is really strange!!!!!
Just thought I would share that my dentist hands out cookies and lattes for his patients, so your dentist is just doing the same. Maybe they learn this at conventions on how to drum up more business.
They are great dentists .. not very savvy about nutrition, obviously, but they do great work and give us a choice to skip xrays, flouride etc which is much more than most dentists these days!
They don’t hassle you about the x-rays? Do you ever get them? I’ve been wondering about that.
Oh my goodness. Guess they aren’t a WAPF friendly dentist, LOL!
Awesome! My kids’ dentist gave them free certificates to get frosty’s at Wendy’s! Talk about mixed messages!