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How Not To Chew

Posted Wed, Feb 07, 2007, 2:13 pm PST
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Keeping my managers happy is mandatory. Forgetting one of their birthdays is bad.

During Friday's dinner rush at davidburke & donatella, I realized that I'd forgotten the birthday of a manager who's been with me a long time. He is helping me to open yet another new restaurant, and in the hustle and bustle of all of the openings and closings, I missed his birthday... which was two weeks ago.

I cut out of davidburke & donatella a little early to take him out for a belated birthday dinner. I thought I'd try my luck at BLT, only a few blocks from davidburke & donatella. Pulling a restaurateur no-no (out of sheer desperation), I walked into a busy restaurant on a Friday night without a reservation. Though BLT was packed, the manager found us a table.

Because my manager is a wine lover (and it was his birthday), I let him choose the wine. The French Burgundy he ordered went perfectly with my Kobe beef skirt steak. In fact, everything was perfect until about halfway through dinner. I was chewing on a perfectly tender bite of that steak when, somehow, I chipped my tooth--creating a nice gap right smack in the middle of my top teeth. I have no idea how it happened, but I spent the rest of dinner looking like a Lauren Hutton wannabe.

The BLT staff was all very nice about it, and though I wasn't in any pain, they brought me some soft desserts to try (which, of course, were all delicious).

Knowing I couldn't show up to davidburke & donatella the next night with a very important part of my smile missing, I called my dentist. And Dr. Eisdorfer--a davidburke & donatella regular--agreed to see me first thing Saturday morning. Thank god for regulars.


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10 Comments

  • 1. Posted by collosha on Tue, Feb 13, 2007, 9:36 pm PST

    I chipped my tooth on a clothing tag! I got it fixed but it broke again! Ugh! Hate the chipping of teeth!

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  • 2. Posted by kelseywestergard on Tue, Feb 13, 2007, 9:50 pm PST

    umm...i was riding a bike, looking down...i ran into the back of a truck and chipped my tooth...it was pretty bad

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  • 3. Posted by Sierra B on Tue, Feb 13, 2007, 9:55 pm PST

    i ended up chipping my teeth on mashed potatoes. not sure how it happened though.

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  • 4. Posted by katie on Tue, Feb 13, 2007, 10:12 pm PST

    haha one time i chipped a tooth doing nothing... i was in the car talking and all of a sudden it just chipped... pretty funny now but then i was freaking out!

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  • 5. Posted by midnitepoet0404 on Tue, Feb 13, 2007, 10:27 pm PST

    This is sad, the world needs an article about how to chew....

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  • 6. Posted by leslie g on Wed, Feb 14, 2007, 12:26 pm PST

    I was in fifth grade playing football-kinda a tomboy back then. As I was going for the catch I ran into the church...chip happens :-)

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  • 7. Posted by Dr. J on Wed, Feb 14, 2007, 12:36 pm PST

    this article made me puke...has this girl ever been on a date? How dare you make a Pavement reference in this trash article!

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  • 8. Posted by Does it matter? on Wed, Feb 14, 2007, 7:11 pm PST

    When my front teeth first came out I was walking while looking backwards and I slammed into a metal gate and chipped off half of it!

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  • 9. Posted by Balls_in_mouth on Thu, Feb 15, 2007, 1:50 pm PST

    This article was terrible, beside the point I broke my top right molar in half by jumping in the back of a truck bed and catching myself with my face. When I got to the dentist he was stunned and said "How the hell did you do that, I have no idea how to fix that."

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  • 10. Posted by Mike P on Tue, Feb 20, 2007, 12:51 pm PST

    i was really hoping this was going to get into how people shouldn't smack their lips and lick their fingers!!!! I hate it when people do that...Especially when I meet a nice and funny young lady and i find out she smacks her lips...it is over!!!

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