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Aging Perspective

Cute story from my inbox.. 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 tale from a woman in her 60s!

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. 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, bald, fat, gray, decrepit man asked, "What did you teach?"

3 comments:

  1. This is classic funny!!! Thanks.

    Seriously though, I remember attending my twenty-five year high school reunion and thinking how old everyone looked. Of course they were thinking the same of me.

    LTF

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