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Who Do You Hate More, the Dentist or Your Dad?

It's taken me a while, and a schooling from a couple of Slate men, to figure out what's wrong with David's dad. As anyone online this afternoon knows, his dad posted a video of him freaking out after getting anesthesia at the dentist. My husband and I have just started posting a couple of kid videos on YouTube, and it never occurred to me that anyone other than my mom would look at them. But every once in a while, the blogosphere picks one up, and then suddenly you and octuplet mom are in the same boat. Probably, in that car, what Dad and David were doing made some kind of sense. But from the outside, here's what it looks like: David is sitting in the back of the car, suffering. He is seriously discombobulated. He thinks his entire life from that point on will be a bad acid trip. And Dad is grooving on it, joking, recording the lolling of the head, the screaming, with his handy camera, looking forward to the moment he can post it as a cool video online. Ladies, anyone else want to join me in judgment?