Hmmmm. I iron every week. The apartment house where I live has laundry facilities for everyone who lives there, and we own our apartments, by the way, we are not tenants. We don't pay extra for using the washing machines, dryers and other things. There are also two irons there which everyone can use, and I make use of one of them every week, as I said. I iron my pants and shirts and I mangle my sheets. However, dry cleaning is moderately expensive (or so I think anyway) so the only things I tend to have dry cleaned are my coats.
To return to the teeth and dentist business, I'm rather scared of going to the dentist myself. Fortunately my teeth are pretty good, though I have a lot of "shallow fillings" that were put there in the sixties - that's when the dentists here in Sweden put their dentist drills to any tooth which had the smallest imperfection. Anyway, I was scared of having an anaesthtic - I hate how my mouth becomes all paralysed somehow when I've had one! - so I had all those fillings from the sixties without an anaesthtic. That hurt.
Anyway, I hadn't seen a dentist for about ten years, when I started feeling twinges in my lower left jaw about a year ago. Those twinges came rarely and disappeared quickly, but they started getting more frequent, so last summer, during my long summer vacation, I decided it was finally time for me to go the dentist again. Well, I had one cavity, nothing major, and I had an anaesthetic and left the dentist's with my mouth feeling all dead and definitely looking oblique. Good thing I didn't have to go to work looking like that!
Ann
