If you have a problem, make it pay you

Here’s one I had this week, and it made me $4.71

Photo by the author. My dental clinic chamber. I had to squeeze myself against the farthest wall to take this picture — I wish phones had a zoom-out feature as well as zoom-in.

I had a new experience with the father of an adult male patient, who insisted that his thirty-year old son who took an appointment for a full scaling ($15.48 in Indian rupees) have only the two dirtiest teeth be cleaned for a lower fee ($4.71)