How True it is

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

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 smith and 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, bald, wrinkled, fat joker, gray-haired, decrepit son-of-a-b*@#~ asked, 'what did you teach?'

[bunnyhop Member Find all posts View Profile Close bunnyhop]

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 smith and 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, bald, wrinkled, fat joker, gray-haired, decrepit son-of-a-b*@#~ asked, 'what did you teach?'

Some people age gracefuly while others.....well.....
that is kinda funny though.
Look at it this way, he's wondering: How is it she can look much younger than me, and have been a teacher at my school?
You can take it as a complement. Kinda like: if someone was to be 50 years old and people say they look like they're in their 40's, that's a good sign.
You look younger than you are.

[falmouth3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close falmouth3]

I read this story a number of years ago and ever since, I've found it to be very true. Everyone thinks they look younger and more robust than their peers. I recently found a picture online of one of the "boys" I had a major crush on in high school. Now he looks like his father. My first impression is boy, did he get old! When I sent the picture to my sister she had the same reaction, and said, of course we haven't aged a day!

Sue