I'm not sure I've ever been more embarrassed than I was about an hour and a half ago. The people of VH know I've been having issues with my wisdom teeth, and I've mentioned countless times in this thread the issues I've been having with my dad. Well he scheduled an appointment for today at 8 AM. He has been hounding me complaining that he did that for me for WEEKS. Last night he kept screaming at me not to forget. This morning, he comes banging on my door at 7 screaming that I have an appointment at 8. At 7:30 he says he's going to take my sister to school (about two minute drive away) and then come get me and we'll go to the dentist. My phone is broken so I had no way of getting in contact with him. Comes back in the house at 8:15 and says "Shit! I forgot about your appointment!" By now, I'm really kind of pissed... but I can deal.
Then we're driving and he confesses he doesn't know where it is and he doesn't have directions or the phone number of the place. I don't even know this place's name because it's not my normal dentist. So not only did he leave the house for 45 minutes and forget the appointment after screaming at me about it for weeks, he didn't even know where the hell he was going!
Then we finally get there after googling it on his blackberry (which by the way was MY idea) and he refuses to let me fill out my own paperwork. I go up there and ask him if there's something I need to sign since I am over 18. He then starts telling the woman if we can have a form I can sign because I "like to pretend [I'm] a self-sufficient responsible adult." She gives him a form for me to waive my rights to make medical decisions to him (she was either incredibly stupid or wanted to play along, I'm not sure although I'm leaning towards incredibly stupid). Then he draws and colors all over the form and tells me "sign it zo! Go feel like a person!" I almost slapped him right there. Instead I said "please dad, we're in public. I don't want to do this ESPECIALLY not right here and right now." Then I asked to go to the bathroom and cried. My father reduced me to tears in the dentist's office!
Well then after I got back from crying my father told me to go sign the form he was on when I asked him if there was something I needed to sign (which by the way, he needed to sign because it was payment stuff and he and I both knew it). I did it to humor him and told the woman I knew I didn't have to sign it. Then dad starts going in on if I know what I just signed... trying to make me look stupid. I go to the bathroom again because I can't be around that. Then as I'm leaving the bathroom the nurse calls me in. Next thing I know, I'm sitting on the chair talking to the nurse about the risks of the procedure and the doctor comes in and says "I don't know what's going on with your father. He just said 'Tell her she can pay for it herself and walk home.' and got up. I have no idea what's going on." I told him I didn't either and went to deal with my father. I had to LECTURE my dad in the waiting room. I asked him if a scene is what he wanted. I asked him if he wanted to yell at me. I asked him what his problem was. He then said I was the one making a scene. At that a couple nurses actually started laughing. I'm so glad that happened, I hope it was a real eye opener for him... we were in PUBLIC! So dad says "are you going to get your teeth pulled?" And I say "Yes, if they'll even still see me after the way you've just acted." And they said yes... the doctor said he couldn't believe my father's immaturity. This is what I put up with. I am so embarrassed... I have to go back for a follow up after new years, I'm so nervous he's going to flip again.
EDIT: now he's acting REALLY nice and making me soup and stuff... doing stuff he ordinarily would never bother with. I think he realized he was way out of line.
