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| As we grow a little olderMarch 10 2007 at 4:20 PM | Inquiring Minds (no login) from IP address 72.24.8.113 |
| A friend emailed this to me. You may have already seen it, but I got a chuckle out of it. Sorry for the all caps, but I just copied and pasted to save time.
> FRIENDS:
> 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! . . .
>
> 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. HMMM.........OR COULD HE???
> AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED MORGAN PARK
> HIGH SCHOOL.
>
> "YES. YES, I DID. I HAD A MUSTANG." HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE.
>
> "WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE?" I ASKED.
>
> HE ANSWERED, "IN 1956. WHY DO YOU ASK?"
>
> "YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!" I EXCLAIMED.
>
> HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY.
>
> THEN, THAT UGLY, OLD, WRINKLED SON-OF-A-BITCH ASKED,
>
> "WHAT DID YOU TEACH???" |
| | Author | Reply | Towanda! (no login) 74.234.85.171 | Cute, Cute, Cute, But... | March 11 2007, 9:20 AM |
a 1956 Mustang? Maybe it was a typo for 1966? |
| JCG (no login) 70.171.68.89 | Riding off into the West? | March 11 2007, 9:37 AM |
The cowboy didn't say that his Mustang was a car back in '56! |
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