Claim for a missing tooth
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Claim for a missing tooth
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#2I made this, thanks for sharing it!
Backstory is here: https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3lkigjm7sk2...
...and here: https://bsky.app/profile/matteason.me/post/3lknf6qfsek2p
tl;dr Séamas O'Reilly wrote a column in The Observer about faking a government reimbursement form for his son, who had swallowed a tooth and was worried about whether the Tooth Fairy would pay up if the tooth couldn't be put under his pillow. He published the form as a PDF (linked from the homepage) and I turned it into a digital service
Someone on Bluesky told me about our first successfully-fooled child yesterday: "I can confirm that form TF-230 worked flawlessly, and my cynical, streetwise 8-year-old son was utterly baffled by finding an envelope with his application form and a handful of coins in the letterbox this afternoon."
Re: Claim for a missing tooth
#3I made this, thanks for sharing it! Backstory is here: https://bsky.app/profile/seamas.bsky.social/post/3lkigjm7sk2... ...and here: https://bsky.app/profile/matteason.me/post/3lknf6qfsek2p tl;dr Séamas O'Reilly wrote a column in The Observer about faking a government reimbursement form for his son, who had swallowed a tooth and was worried about whether the Tooth Fairy would pay up if the tooth couldn't be put under…
Awesome, great job on the site! I saw it on the Slack, and was surprised at the level of detail in some of the pages like the tooth selection screen :D
It also got a good chuckle from those I shared it with at work! :)
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#4I like that you can select a wisdom tooth too. Adults having their wisdom teeth pulled out should absolutely use that website to file a claim.
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#5This is really creative! Thanks for sharing!
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#6Neat idea!
This brings back an embarrassing memory from childhood.
Playing football in the yard, a careless neighborhood kid accidentally knocked two of my baby teeth out.
I remember scouring the grass for them to no avail, then getting in a rage about how I wouldn't get tooth fairy money, so punched the boy, and he started crying and ran home. I don't even remember who it was, but to this day feel bad about that.
When I got home, my parents said it's no problem, just write a letter explaining what happened and the tooth fairy will understand. And that worked.
Being a deviant, I decided to test it a few days later with another letter in secret, to no avail. And that was my first inclination this whole thing wasn't real.
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#7How timely is this.
Just minutes ago my child handed me a tooth to go under their pillow, then I find this.
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#8Absolutely love the work done here! Only change I would make is change "rubber" to "eraser" to help more English speaking children understand the content (:
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#9Absolutely love the work done here! Only change I would make is change "rubber" to "eraser" to help more English speaking children understand the content (:
Given the source of truth is British English, the maths says no.
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#10Very creative and well executed.
When I was like 6 a friend choked me and I swallowed my tooth. I was very sad because the tooth fairy ("ratón perez") would not pay me :(
But thankfully I found a note notifying me that they found my tooth and reimbursing me :)
So I see where the idea came from, but I wouldn't ever had imagined this bureocratic twist