OUCH!
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> HAVE YOU EVER BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN AGE
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> AND THINKING, "SURELY I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD!" WELL... YOU'LL LOVE THIS
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> I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW
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> DENTIST. I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA, WHICH BORE HIS FULL NAME.
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> SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY WITH THE SAME
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> NAME HAD BEEN IN MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS SOME 40-ODD YEARS AGO. COULD HE
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> BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACK THEN?
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> UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCH THOUGHT.
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> THIS BALDING, GRAY-HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS WAY TOO
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> OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE. AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM
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> IF HE HAD ATTENDED MORGAN PARK HIGH SCHOOL.
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> "YES. YES, I DID. I'M A MUSTANG," HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE.
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> "WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE?" I ASKED.
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> HE ANSWERED, "IN 1959 . WHY DO YOU ASK?"
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> "YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!" I EXCLAIMED.
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> HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY.
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> THEN, THAT UGLY, OLD, WRINKLED, BALD, FAT, GRAY, DECREPIT
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> SON-OF-A-GUN ASKED, "WHAT DID YOU TEACH?"
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