"One of These Days"

 Summary:

Aurelio Escovar, is a poor dentist who does not have a degree. One early morning he was polishing some false teeth. His eleven year old son announced that the mayor wanted to get his infected tooth pulled. Escover refused to see the mayor, even though the mayor wanted to shot him. Escover was not scared at all, he also had a gun to shot the mayor if the mayor attempts to. But when the mayor arrived at the room, Escover had treated and examined him, and pulled his wisdom tooth without anesthesia, and said “Now you’ll pay for our twenty dead men.” The mayor told the dentist to send him the bill. 

The part I liked:

When the dentist’s eleven year old son said “He still hadn’t changed his expression. He says if you don’t take out his tooth, he’ll shoot you.” To me it shows that the mayor has power to do and get what ever he wants. The mayor felt that the dentist was poor and he would be unable to do anything. But the dentist did have something to protect himself also; he had his own gun too in his table. The dentist said “Tell him to come and shoot me.” Which shows that even though he was not powerful, he did have some power when he pulled the mayors tooth without  anesthesia.

Question:
what is the author trying to tell us?
why was Aurelio Escovar the dentist mad at the mayor? 

Interpretation:
The author may want his readers to think about the historical period in Colombia were the government took action by wrong doings. Many times people with power can corrupt the peopel in its community then protect it. In the story, it shows that the mayor is not a good guy, and had done something corrupted to his community, which is why the dentist did not want to see him. The title "One of These Days," to me means, that the dentist  was waiting for this day to come were he can take revenge. knowing that one day he will be able to stop the corruption. The dentist had been sarcastic to the mayor and reminding the mayor of the bad things he had done currently to the people of his society.