The Tooth Fairy

"How long did you believe in the tooth fairy?" - Anon


Well, I was always a difficult child and overly curious. About everything. So these stories of the Easter Bunny, and Santa and everything really made no sense to me. I figured if these were tangible beings, I would be able to find out more information about them. You know, all other rabbits leave "presents" on the floor and such... what made the Easter Bunny so civilized that it didn't? And how did a fat man get down a chimney? What about houses with no chimney's? And how big is a fairy exactly? Well, I was determined to find out these answers.

Every time I lost a tooth I would leave a survey. Yes, you read that correctly, a survey. I would ask for name, age, fave color, hobbies, birthmarks, hair color, eye color... i even went as far as to ask for pictures and left a camera there. Well, my mom played along with this for a while and actually made up different fairies and such and it was really cool. All the "fairies" would always say there was no way for them to appear on camera. Well, they used my pencil to write stuff on this paper, maybe I could catch them myself. So I tied a string to the pencil and attached it to a camera. Well, in between finding small teeth in my mom's jewelry box, the handwriting on the survey's matching that of her check book and address book, as well as a horribly dark shadowed picture of what looked like my mother, I disproved the tooth fairy at age 7. And that's my story.