30 minutes later my W comes in, upset, as the walnuts had not been properly shelled and she had broken a tooth. I felt like h-ll, guilty (I should have looked through the walnuts before just dumping them in!), and said sorry to my W after calling the emergency dentist (who could do nothing on a Sunday). My W said I was sorry for myself, "as usual", and she was right.
For crying out loud, how hard does she chew yogurt??? I read something regarding lawsuits a while back that makes a lot of sense to me. Basically if you're in a restaurant and you damage a tooth because you bit into something hard, you have no grounds for a lawsuit if there is a reasonable expectation that the hard object might be in what you were eating. In other words, if you're eating fish or meat, you should have an expectation that you may bite into a bone and you should therefore be a little cautious. And if you're eating walnuts, there's a reasonable expectation you might bite into a shell. So if you damage a tooth in such cases, look in the mirror if you want to blame someone.
The flip side of that is if you're eating ice cream and you bite into a rock and chip your tooth, well you wouldn't expect that so there are grounds for legal action.
