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Together we will defeat the UGLY TYRANT CLOWN. I didn’t have to wait too long, there were only two [BLEEP!] other people there and they weren’t too close, and to protect ourselves. they weren’t coughing or spitting up blood, you M Shout out to JORDAN OFFICER for an awesome know what I mean? And then I got in the chair and three-album release of blues, jazz and country! You the dentist and the hygienist had on lots of PPE are a local BIJOUX. [BLEEP!] and seemed prepared and ready to go to work on my teeth. And they even talked me into doing a F Hey, who knew VAN MORRISON was such a cleaning — they said I could really use it, said it moron? I hope he goes back to stay in Las Vegas looked like it had been a while since I’d had one, where he’ll be right at home with all the dumbass and that it would be a good thing to do before American ANTI-MASKERS. Oh, and then there’s fixing the broken tooth. So I figured what the hell, NOEL GALLAGHER but at least we always knew he I am already here, let’s go for the works. But then was an idiot. [BLEEP!] that’s when the PROBLEM came up: It was the only problem, but it was a big problem. It was this — M Hello Rant Line™, I just wanted to say that I after the cleaning, and before they started fixing am loving this mask and social distancing thing. the broken tooth, I needed to take a PISS. I needed ADVERTISE IN No more phony CHEEK KISSING, no more PHONY to take a piss bad. Guess I should have thought HUGGING and nobody can smell if I have booze on of this before, but you know, I hadn’t planned on my breath. [BLEEP!] getting a cleaning. And the cleaning took like, I don’t know, 45 minutes, and now I needed a piss. M If I see one more anti-mask protest I swear I’m But they wouldn’t let me into the TOILET. No toilets going to head down and shove a mask down one of available! The bathrooms were barred, shut, off their throats until they need an VENTILATOR to get limits to everyone. I’m like, is that even legal? But it out. [BLEEP!] there was no arguing, and I needed to take a piss, and I still needed to have my broken tooth fixed. So F Hello, this is to everyone who keeps going on and they didn’t know what to do and I didn’t know what on about parking spots being taken away. You were to do and I said, well let me go outside for a minute all so happy when hundreds of thousands marched and see if I can come up with something because if for climate change last year on the mountain — I don’t piss soon I am going to piss right here in your everybody was a GRETA THUNBERG — but the dentist chair. So I went outside, I thought maybe a minute it means you can’t park directly in front of restaurant or something could maybe help me out, your house or favourite restaurant, you want all but there was nothing that looked open, and they the bike paths taken down. Reality check: BE the probably would not help me out, so forget that. So CHANGE. [BLEEP!] I just took a piss in the ALLEY. Thank you Plateau Wear Wash Keep your alleys. And to be honest, I am fairly used to pissing M Okay, about the REV bike paths being built on in an alley, doing that at night, you know, drinking, St-Denis. Listen, in case you hadn’t noticed, St- but not so used to doing it in broad daylight, a mask your hands distance Denis is DEAD and this project may actually SAVE with people passing by. But I got the piss done, the street and merchants by bringing people to mission accomplished. And I went back in, got my a greener, more people-friendly street. Contrary temperature taken again — I guess in case I had to the BULLSHIT PRESS this is getting, the whole caught COVID-19 while outside taking a piss — got thing will be done in a little over a month of work my hands sanitized again, probably a good thing, and it will eliminate virtually none of their beloved sat back down in the chair and got my tooth fixed. parking spots. Personally, I’m taking notes as to And so the moral of the story is this: Take a piss who the loudmouth WHINING MERCHANTS are and before you go to the dentist. I don’t know if every vowing to never set foot in their establishments dentist now is like that, with no toilet available, again. [BLEEP!] it doesn’t seem right. Was it just this dentist? But if I was you, I would ask the dentist if they have a M Hello. I just want to tell my pandemic story. I functioning toilet when you make the appointment. am sure everyone has one, but this is mine. Today Yeah that’s it, be prepared — take a pre-dentist / I went to the DENTIST for the first time. BROKEN piss. For me, it all turned out good in the end, but Québec.ca coronavirus TOOTH. Otherwise I wouldn’t have gone — I figure there’s one thing I worry about, maybe you should, I don’t need a cleaning, fuck that, my teeth seem too — what if I needed to take a SHIT? [BLEEP!] clean enough to me. Maybe a small bit of ROT or gum decay, but whatever, I don’t usually go to the 1 877 644-4545 dentist even in the best of times. So for me, minor GUM DISEASE is par for the course, especially during a pandemic, you know what I mean? But a GOT AN OPINION ON THE LOCAL SCENE? broken tooth, that can really be a bitch.