BAR THE OCCASIONAL KRILL

This crazy dame drank milk like there was no tomorrow, and then she'd drink more when tomorrow came in case the new tomorrow didn't come. With tomorrow always arriving and the threat of no new tomorrow always on the cards, she drank more milk. With excess comes suffering.

She was faced with stereotypically Jewish relatives growing up; they dropped Yiddish words into the conversation and squeezed her cheeksface until she looked like a fat trout in a wind tunnel - and if you've ever had a fat trout in your wind tunnel you'll know the face I mean. Badoom tshhhhhh. They didn't subscribe to the other tenets of Judaism, just the squeezing and calling people nudniks. Mix and match I suppose; they seemed happy (but weren't). Crazy dame knew that if she didn't take action, her cheeks would lose their elasticity and be hanging around her pert breasts by the time she was nineteen, so she took the first step on that dangerous road to drinking too much milk: she held milk in her mouth like a teetotal hamster having a liquid lunch.

They learnt quickly not to squeeze. "Bist meshugeh? I'm all shmutzik now..." Still she held the milk in her mouth, fearing a sneak attack. Milk sours quickly when kept at body temperature; she sucked it through her teeth and poured herself another glass, and another, and another. She liked the taste. Protection led to enjoyment; by the time she was twelve she was up to eight cows a day, and still she kept drinking more. Her mother and father both took on extra jobs to keep the crazy dame in milk, her grandmother started charging the people she had sex with. "It's good for her; she's a growing girl. Better she drinks milk than spends her time shtupping that shaigitz."

If her teeth weren't so strong, she'd have chipped a tooth on the first calcium deposit that appeared in her mouth. She spat it out and drank some more. More and more little bits of calcium came and were spat. She continued to drink; it was only a matter of time before the calcium deposits stuck to her teeth. More time, more milk, more build-up on the teeth. The first time her teeth grew together it was just a small bond, and she was able to pull them apart just feeling a little tackiness in her mouth. More time, more milk, more build-up, more sticking together, more pulling apart, more time, more milk, more build-up, more sticking together, the sticking together stuck. Her teeth were joined firmly, her jaw was naturally wired shut.

There were still gaps between her teeth through which she could suck milk. Her only source of nutrition (bar the occasional krill) meant she had to carry on drinking milk; normal people would have seen a dentist when they couldn't open their mouth, but normal people would also not have drunk so much milk that their teeth joined together. [Time passes interestingly and dramatically]. The fateful day came when she had no more gaps and she sought the advice of a dentist. Any attempt to separate the upper and lower sets of teeth would have led to splintering, unusable teeth and agonised gums. Drilling a hole through the front of the teeth would have meant ridicule and embarrassment. Her cheeks were pulled as wide open as they could and a large drill was taken around the corner to drill through the lumps of calcium and teeth at the side. It took a long time to drill through the near diamond strength teeth and her cheeks suffered horribly, leaving them dangling when all was completed. Black lines were drawn on the front of her teeth to represent gaps and she was ordered never to drink milk again, just to poke bits of mashed up food through the holes at the side.

The lines on her teeth gave her a look of a permanent cute smile. Aged relatives swarmed to play with her dangly cheeks, soon discovering that they could squeeze them and have their finger and thumb meet in the middle of her mouth. Her cheeks became saggier and saggier. The very thing she sought to avoid became visited upon her because of her excess. There's ironic.