How much time and money do I spend at the dentist? Put it this way: he bought himself a Ferrari | Zoe Williams

I’m not saying I paid for all of it. But I probably should have flossed more I was at the dentist’s, because that’s where I always am at the moment, lying there, mouth full of stuff, thinking: “This is just a phase and not the new normal.” The conversation is one-sided by necessity, which is the only saving grace of being there at all, that window into a world where I’m not constantly talking and get to find out what other people are interested in for a change. No, there’s one other saving gr...

By Zoe Williams