Is It Safe?

In the 1976 movie, The Marathon Man, the hero “Babe” Levy, played by Dustin Hoffman, is restrained in a dental chair. The demented dentist, played by Laurence Olivier, is torturing him with a dental drill. While Olivier is drilling into Hoffman’s teeth, he keeps repeating the question, “Is it safe?”

Is what safe? Hoffman’s character doesn’t have a clue what the dentist is talking about and it looks like “bye-bye” teeth.

I’m going to turn this scene around and apply it to real life. How many tim...