4852. TRAVELS SINGAPORE. "My teeth are original!" said the 73-year-old man.

TRAVELS SINGAPORE.

23 Jun 2023.

This fit and lean 73-year-old man had just returned from a solo tour of towns in Thailand.  He had said hello when he saw me taking photos of the Redhill Close flats using a tripod. He showed me his travel photos. 

The inexpensive and good food made me salivate. The hills he climbed after spotting them from his hotel room. The temples and gods he visited. The clean beds and toilets. The deserted fine beach he swam in.

I wished I was there, if only I could walk briskly and far.

I complimented him on his excellent fitting shiny yellow dentures. "My teeth are real", he everted his upper and lower lips with his hands to the maximum. "These are my original teeth!"

I could see the roots of the front teeth in his thinned gums. Many elderly men looked strange with gaps from lost front teeth. But they could not care less. This man had a full set, albeit shiny yellow instead of white "dentures". I mistook them for dentures.

I learnt my lesson. No more denture compliments from me from now on.  

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The 73-year-old man with the orange sling bag.
HDB blocks, Redhill Close, Singapore, 23 Jun 2023, 9.07 am. Canon R5,  AV, 1/40 sec, f/11, ISO 200

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UPDATE:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2023/06/4852-travels-singapore-my-teeth-are.html

23 Jun 2023.

This fit and lean 73-year-old man had just returned from a solo tour of towns in Thailand.  He had said hello when he saw me taking photos of the Redhill Close flats using a tripod. He showed me his travel photos. 

The inexpensive and good food made me salivate. The hills he climbed after spotting them from his hotel room. The temples and gods he visited. The clean beds and toilets. The deserted fine beach he swam in.

I wished I was there, if only I could walk briskly and far.

I complimented him on his excellent fitting shiny yellow dentures. "My teeth are real", he everted his upper and lower lips with his hands to the maximum. "These are my original teeth!"

I could see the roots of the front teeth in his thinned gums. Many elderly men looked strange with gaps from lost front teeth. But they could not care less. This man had a full set, albeit shiny yellow instead of white "dentures". I mistook them for dentures.

I learnt my lesson. No more denture compliments from me from now on.  

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The 73-year-old man with the orange sling bag.
HDB blocks, Redhill Close, Singapore, 23 Jun 2023, 9.07 am. Canon R5,  AV, 1/40 sec, f/11, ISO 200

TO BUY PHOTO:    www.shutterstock.com/g/toapayohvets

UPDATE:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2023/06/4852-travels-singapore-my-teeth-are.html

 

 

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 I met a man called Eric

He was my age at 73

“You are lean and trim,” I complimented.

“I am like this because I am a poor man,” he pointed to my paunch.

I didn’t reply

I was taking photos of the demolition of Redhill Close when he approached to ask about my hobby.

He whipped out his mobile phone from his shorts suddenly

and narrated his recent solo tour of towns from Bangkok to the Northern Thailand

His two male buddies had backed out of the tour. So he toured solo.

The Thai food was cheap, tasty and clean - no diarrhoea or stomach aches

He swam in a deserted white sandy and clean beach.

“I saw these hills from my hotel room” he showed me the photos. “I climbed up to the top.”.

I wished I had his strong muscular legs and iron knees.

“The beds are very clean and so are the toilets”, he showed more photos.

The reader must be bored now.

I wasn’t as I am into travel photography.

After some more photos of the gods and temples, I said, “You have good fitting dentures as there are no gaps between the teeth.”

His front teeth were gleaming a shiny yellow although most dentures I saw in the elderly are white and not glossy.

Dentures do come in various hues.

Eric’s eyes shot out fireworks as he said, “I still have my original teeth!”

“Look, look!”, he everted his lips very widely as if I was his dentist. “ These are real, very real teeth!”.

I could see the faint outlines of the roots of his incisors under the thinned pink gums.

The moral of my story?

Don’t compliment dentures. It is a risky and sensitive issue!