Dental, damn!

I’ve had a revelation. From now on, I’m going to schedule all major dental work so that I can sit and watch the Giro or the Tour or the Vuelta uninterrupted, live, while sitting in the dentist’s chair. After sufffering through some awful Today Show nightmare involving Katie Couric in a poodle skirt and Matt Lauer in some horrible imitation of The Fonz, it occurred to me: “Hey! The Giro’s on right now!” Patients control the clicker in my dentist’s office, so I was off to the Giro, and from that point on, despite the fact there were three people with their hands (or extensions thereof) in my mouth, my only concern was getting an unobstructed view of the first mountain stage. The peloton blew apart, there were two chase groups behind the breakaway, and Cunego absolutely sailed up that last mountain while the others went to pieces. An outstanding race.