AGING.....늙는다는 것

늙는다는 것…..    HAVE YOU EVER BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR  OWN AGE AND THINKING, SURELY I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD?        MY NAME IS ALICE SMITH AND 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. AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED  FAIRVIEW HIGH SCHOOL.  "YES. YES, I DID. I'M A BULLDOG," HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE. "WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE?" I ASKED. HE ANSWERED , "IN 1966. WHY DO YOU ASK?" "YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!", I EXCLAIMED. HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY. THEN, THAT UGLY, OLD, BALD, WRINKLED, FAT ASS, GRAY-HAIRED, DECREPIT SON-OF-A- *&^% ASKED ME... " SO, WHAT DID YOU TEACH ?"