Surely, I Can't Look That Old

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” he said.

“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, wrinkled jerk asked, “What did you teach?”