Have You Ever Been Guilty?

......                      HAVE  YOU EVER BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN AGE AND  THINKING,“SURELY  I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD.”

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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  ATTENDEDMORGAN  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, 

BALD, 

WRINKLED  FACED, 

FAT-ASSED, 

GRAY-HAIRED, 

DECREPIT 

SON-OF-A-BITCH 

ASKED, 

”WHAT  SUBJECT DID YOU TEACH?”