[SOC] Classmates

[Bob Nielsen]

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, 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 known 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 West Linn  
High School.

"Yes. Yes, I did.  I'm a ‘Lion’," he gleamed with pride.

"When did you graduate?" I asked.

He answered, "In 1962. Why do you ask?"

"You were in my class!” I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely.

Then, that ugly, old, bald wrinkled, fat, gray, decrepit son-of-a- 
bitch asked,

"What did you teach?"