Too Old

Sadie was sitting in the waiting room for her first appointment with a new dentist. She noticed his diploma, which bore his full name. She began thinking, and suddenly remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name from her high school class nearly 60 years ago. Could the dentist be the same man that she had a secret crush on, way back then??

Upon seeing the dentist, however, she quickly discarded any such thought. "This bald, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face is way too old to have been my classmate," she thought as he worked on her teeth. "Or could he be?"

"Do you mind if I ask you something?" the woman asked after the dentist had finished.

"No, not at all," the dentist said.

"Did you attend Morgan Park High School?"

"Yes. Yes, I did. I was on the football team," he answered, gleaming with pride.

"What year did you graduate?" the woman asked.

"In 1957. Why do you ask?"

"You were in my class!" the woman exclaimed.

The dentist looked at her closely. "Really?" he asked. "I don't recognize you. "What did you teach?"

Doug strikes again.