Hell Hath No Fury

We’ve all heard that phrase a thousand times. “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Perhaps, however, it translates into something slightly less intimidating in Polish because a Polish man recently found himself the recipient of a scorned woman’s fury--due, at least in part, to his own stupidity.

Marek Olszewski made the mistake of dumping his dentist girlfriend, Anna Machowiak, for another woman and then going to Machowiak just days later with a toothache. Machowiak says that, although she intended to handle the situation professionally, once she had him all drugged up in front of her, she did the only logical thing: She pulled all his teeth out. Every last one of them. She then wrapped his jaw very tightly, told him the anesthesia would prevent him from feeling anything for a while and referred him to a specialist. Obviously it didn’t take him long to realize something was very wrong, but by that point it was simply too late.

And the best part? In an extreme case of karmic justice, the scorner became the scornee. Yes, it seems that, after the whole ordeal, Olszewski’s new girlfriend—the one he’d dumped his tooth-loving girlfriend for—couldn’t make her exit fast enough. Apparently she just wasn’t interested in dating a man with no teeth.

I’ve heard it mentioned that, if a male dentist had done this to his female girlfriend, people would be irate; that because it’s a woman culprit, people are more sympathetic. I disagree. I think it would be equally as great a story with a man in the starring dentist role. This isn’t about gender; it’s about being wronged. And I think anyone who’s ever been done wrong by a man or a woman, cheered a little bit in his or her soul after hearing this story.

Or maybe it was just me.

After all, I am a Polish woman…