When you think a person is too old, they too might actually be thinking the same about you

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.

While 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 Waseca high school.

“Yes.  Yes, I did.  I’m a Bluejay,” he beamed 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, bald, wrinkled, fat ass, gray-haired, decrepit Son of a gun asked, “What did you teach?”