One Of These Days

In the short story titled “One of These Days” the plot involves a poor dentist named, Aurelio whose patient is the corrupt mayor of the town. The mayor comes to see him because he has a sore wisdom tooth that has been bothering him for five days. The doctor ignored the mayor’s request to help him until the mayor threatened to end his life. The dentist agrees to pull out the mayor’s wisdom tooth. However, he states that he has to do it without any anesthesia. In the end, the dentist asks the mayor if he should put the bill with the mayor or the town and the mayor replies by saying it did not matter.
Aurelio is angry with the mayor because he is a corrupt and arrogant mayor. He uses the town’s money to get whatever he wants. The dentist behavior

He justifies his behavior by the mayor’s behavior. The mayor’s actions toward his citizens are cruel and Aurelio wanted to share how he felt about it by being very cruel by pulling out his sore wisdom tooth without anesthesia.
If I were Aurelio and in the same situation, I would have handled it differently. If I had other patients, I would have put the mayor last. I would do this to make the point that his position does not entitle him to preferential treatment. When it was his turn, I would act professional and pull out his wisdom tooth with anesthesia. I would not want to stoop to his level. I would give him the same instructions like Aurelio did. However, I would of increased the price of the surgery and ask him who should I give the bill too. I would tell him I would only accept the money from his personal funds.
The mayor’s corruption and arrogance made the dentist angry and as a result, the dentist chose to make him pay by having a painful procedure. Professionally the dentist should have not done what he did in this story. He did it for payback for the citizens of his town. If a dentist in real life did this exact same thing, he or she could potentially have professional consequences to their dentistry