So Spoiled?

Picture the following scene...

Large and noisy art room at a grammar school filled with 4 air compressors humming/buzzing/roaring as lines of second graders shift from foot to foot and nervously chat amongst themselves. Trailing from one of the five temporary dental operatories is a particularly boisterous line of children. Two women at the station are talking low and steadily as one dictates to the other the conditions found in the gaping mouth of another child laid out on their exam chair. The woman recording the dictation turns slightly and gently reminds the children that they are still in school and to whisper among themselves rather than the loud conversations they had been holding. As the line of children fall back into order, one little boy hops from foot to foot and grins from ear to ear and leans forward from his line to whisper in an exaggerated manner, "Oh thank so very much dentist ladies!"

Now let me tell you readers, this is so not a normal reaction that it cause me to look up and smile. He was genuinely glowing with happiness! He went on to say, "I am so so so happy for this!" His manner was like a child opening Christmas gifts! You'd think he was about to receive this....

or maybe this....

or these even??? 

But NO he was THRILLED to have been given this.....

Because as he went on to inform us, "My other one got old and broken and we are out of money so I've been brushing like this..." as he goes on to mime using the side of his index finger. Not on a medical mission to Guatemala....no I was in a school in a Chicago suburb.