Others your own age

[kgwilson]

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

 

SURELY I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD? WELL....

 

MY NAME IS ALICE SMITH AND I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST

 

APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST. I NOTICED HIS DENTAL DEGREE, WHICH BORE

 

HIS FULL NAME. SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY WITH THE SAME NAME HAD BEEN IN MY SECONDARY 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, GREY HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS FAR TOO OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE.

 

AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED MORGAN PARK SECONDARY SCHOOL .'YES, YES I DID.. I'M A MORGANNER!' HE BEAMED WITH PRIDE.

 

'WHEN DID YOU LEAVE TO GO TO COLLEGE?' I ASKED.HE ANSWERED, 'IN 1965.. WHY DO YOU ASK?'

 

'YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!' I EXCLAIMED.

 

HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY.

 

THEN THE UGLY,

 

OLD,

 

BALD,

 

WRINKLED,

 

FAT-ARXED,

 

GREY-HAIRED,

 

DECREPIT,

 

BASTARD

 

ASKED....

 

'AND WHAT SUBJECT DID YOU TEACH?'

 

 

[Yenn]

A school teacher friend of mine tells the story. At the start of a new year with the first graders, she asks if any child knew if its parents were taught by her. Silence and then a little voice pipes up "Please Miss you taught my Gran"