Scarlett's Granddad said...

 Scarlett's Granddad said...

 by Len Morgan

When I was a boy, about your age, the tooth fairy began to visit.  She took away my milk teeth.  One by one they fell out until they were all gone. 

Then the tooth fairy waved her wand and allowed me to grow a new set of teeth, bigger and stronger. 

"Take good care of them!" she warned, "they are your second chance.  Do not eat too much sweet stuff or drink too many fizzy drinks or they won't last long." 

But Granddad was a silly boy who drank too much Lemonade and Fizzy Pop.  He ate sweets by the bag full and sweet sticky cakes and buns by the ton.  He forgot to brush his teeth regularly and pretty soon, he was visiting the dentists for fillings every month.  

When he had his first extraction, he recalled the Tooth Fairies warning and tried to change, but he was a 'sugar-junkie' he couldn't resist the 'Sugar-Demon'. 

He called out to the Tooth Fairy and promised he would change his ways!  His Teeth were being extracted every three months, regular as clockwork. 

"If you prove you can go one month without sweets or fizzy drinks, I'll see what I can do," she said. 

After a month she returned with his old milk teeth and fashioned them into a new set of false teeth. 

Granddad smiled and showed his bright teeth. 

"Ha ha!  You got them from the dentist," Scarlett said.  

"Are you sure?" he asked.

"Mmm..." she wasn't quite so sure after all...

Copyright Len Morgan