The Chaotic Adventure of An Errant Set of Dentures

I worked at Visionworks during the pandemic. One day we found dentures in the bathroom. We checked the sign-in and everyone was in their 20s except a 103-year-old lady. We called her first. She put the teeth in, made a face, spat them out on the desk, and yelled, “These aren’t mine!” My coworker picked them up wearing three latex gloves and an inside out Ziploc baggie like he was picking up doggy doo-doo. The great granddaughter (30s) calls back an hour later explaining they are a multi-generational household and her grandmother and great grandmother both have dementia, and her mother (62) is their fulltime caretaker, and it was beginning to get to her… she had accidentally brought her grandmother to the eye appointment earlier wearing her mother’s teeth. She got them later in the day and we all had a good laugh. — Elena J., Nashua, NH