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.
MY NAME IS ALICE , AND I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST.
I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA ON THE WALL, 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 30-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 1975. WHY DO YOU ASK?'
YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!', I EXCLAIMED.
HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY.
THEN, THAT UGLY,
OLD,
BALDING,
WRINKLED FACED,
FAT-ASSED,
GRAY-HAIRED,
DECREPIT
SON-OF-A-BITCH
ASKED,
'WHAT DID YOU TEACH???
'WHAT DID YOU TEACH???
Ha.
ReplyDeleteThat hits too close to home perhaps. :)
LMAO! That's what I thought Luther!
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ReplyDeleteOh, you guys mean like, when my sister and I were arguing about who would pick up lunch and our schtoopid 20-something waiter said to me "let your daughter treat you!".
ReplyDeleteShe's 7 years younger than me.
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Oh, ouch! =))
ReplyDeleteI guess that whippersnapper doesn't know a brilliant young lady when he sees one! :X
ReplyDeleteOuch, ouch and ouch!
ReplyDeleteI was recently at a birthday party, for my (7-year-old) son's friend. As I was sitting there with a bunch of the other fathers- watching the kids play- the birthday boy came over, looked at us one-by-one and proudly exclaimed to the (40ish, slightly graying) guy next to me "Oh, you must be Matthew's grandfather!"
Still not as bad as "Let your daughter treat you" though : P
Whenever I go to a concert, I amazed that so many old people like the same music that I do.
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ReplyDeleteStill not as bad as "Let your daughter treat you" though : P
Hey! I resemble that remark, grandpa!
Oh, the guy next to you.
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I was speed-reading your comment and overlooked that part :-)
When I was at my high school reunion last August, I wondered who invited all the old people.
ReplyDeleteLMAO! My first boyfriend (oh, how I loved him!) now works with my younger brother, but I didn't know that at first. My bro sends me an email of a page from his company's personnel booklet, with a picture of an old man with a grey beard. "You have regards from a secret admirer" he writes. I wrote back asking him why he's sending me pictures of old men. When he told me that was my old boyfriend I was flabbergasted.
ReplyDeleteSo what did my darling baby brother say? "Well, you're no oil painting yourself".
Chutzpah! X( :))
"Oh, the guy next to you."
ReplyDeleteI could just as easily have been me though. When I was a kid I often wondered why my parents were so old, compared to all the other kids' parents. It turns out that my parents were only 32 when they had me. I say *only* since I was already a few years older than that when I had my first boy...
Obviously, annie, your parents let you date a much older man.
ReplyDeleteAge/appearance assumtions are almost always wrong. Yesterday I was fulfilling a "Honey Do" list at a local market and alongside of me at the counter was a lady who appeared no older than mid to late 50's...baby smooth skin, no jowls, bright eyes, no neck sags, etc. She commented that she was fulfiling a "Honey Do" list too, but for senior citizens, who were too infirm to "get out", at a local home where she volunteers. I said I was nearly that age/stage....at least some days anyway.
ReplyDeleteShe laughed, said I didn't look it, and asked what year I was born (1942). Laughed again and said she was born in 1932! And showed her DL to prove it.
What ever she's doing should be bottled and sold.
LOL! Yeeowch! I come from genetic stock that stays young looking (both grannies in their 90's looked better than most people in their 60s). On the other hand, my husband's family age hard, and he's always looked about 10 years older than he is. That's made life interesting for us on a number of occasions. Everybody keeps telling me to enjoy it, but it gets downright annoying at times.
ReplyDeleteSome is genetics, some is lifestyle. I think that when people (women especially) are well loved, it shows in a more youthful physical appearance - face especially.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
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