Before the Tooth Fairy...

There was a time in a my childhood when the Tooth Fairy did not exist.  This was a time when my parents were poor students...figures.

We would go outside on the warm Texan mornings with my latest tooth.

If it was from the bottom of my mouth, I'd throw it on the roof.  The tooth would thus "grow to the sky".

If it was from the top of my mouth, we'd bury it in the ground and it would "grow down to the earth".

Sounds really one-with-nature, doesn't it?

Fast forward to the modern day....my brother recently managed to lose one of his lower jaw teeth.

Unfortunately, the *Tooth Fairy* was a little forgetful two nights ago (somehow it might have been my mom's fault).  He was looking for the $$$ under his pillow, but all he found was his tooth.

So I pretended to get my Blackberry from my backpack and in the process grabbed a loonie.  I reached into his pillow and "found" something.  Voilà!

I told him what I used to do with my lost teeth in the ancient days before the tooth fairy. We threw his latest forgotten tooth on the roof...albeit, a very different, larger, Canadian roof.

How things have changed...