Tuesday, June 13, 2006

OUCH!!

 

 

 

 

HAVE YOU EVER  BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN AGE AND THINKING,

 

"SURELY I CAN'T LOOK  THAT OLD?" WELL... YOU'LL LOVE THIS ONE!

 

I WAS SITTING IN THE  WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW
DENTIST. I NOTICED HIS DDS  DIPLOMA, WHICH BORE HIS FULL NAME.

 

SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED  A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY WITH THE SAME NAME
HAD BEEN IN MY HIGH SCHOOL  CLASS SOME 40-ODD YEARS AGO. COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH  ON, WAY BACK THEN??

 

UPON SEEING HIM,  HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCH THOUGHT.

 

THIS BALDING,  GRAY-HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS WAY TOO OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE.  HMMM OR COULD HE???

 

AFTER HE EXAMINED MY  TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED MORGAN PARK HIGH SCHOOL.

 

"YES. YES, I DID. I'M  A MUSTANG," HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE.

 

"WHEN DID YOU  GRADUATE?" I ASKED. HE ANSWERED, "IN 1959. WHY DO YOU  ASK?"

 

"YOU WERE IN MY  CLASS!" I EXCLAIMED.  HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY.

 

THEN, THAT UGLY, OLD,  WRINKLED SON-OF-A-BITCH ASKED,

 

"WHAT DID YOU TEACH?"