Tooth wiggling

[Jon]

I started to get a bit of toothache early last night. Then, for some inexplicable reason, I can't stop wiggling the thing!!

Why is that?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Learned behavior when you were a child and were losing your deciduous teeth.

 

[Jon]

Or could it be a evolutionary form of stress testing your weaknesses? A bit like the urge to suck on a cut you have on your arm. Get that saliva in there to heal the wound.

 

[Bee]

I have no urges to suck on any cuts. Ewww.

 

[Jon]

As your probably know, saliva acts as an anaesthetic. No TCP back then! In fact, my great, great, great.....great aunty lived in a tree. Basic living conditions! In fact, social security back then was a mere olive branch. [Hangs head in shame.]