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 BDS 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 attended St. Mary’s High School.
“Yes, yes, I did,” he gleamed with pride.
“When did you graduate?” I asked.
He answered, “In 1984. Why do you ask?”
“You were in my class!!!!” I exclaimed.
He looked at me closely. Then, that ugly, old, bald, wrinkled-faced, gray-haired, decrepit, son-of-a-bitch, asked, “What did you teach???”
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It was a cold winter day.
An old man walked out onto a frozen lake, cut a hole in the ice, dropped in his fishing line, and waited patiently for a bite.
He was there for almost an hour, without even a nibble, when a young boy walked out onto the ice, cut a hole in the ice next to him. The young boy dropped his fishing line and minutes later he hooked a Largemouth Bass.
The old man couldn’t believe his eyes but chalked it up to plain luck. Shortly thereafter, the young boy pulled in another large catch. The young boy kept catching fish after fish.
Finally, the old man couldn’t take it any longer. “Son” he said, “I’ve been here for over an hour without even a nibble. You’ve been here only a few minutes and have caught a half dozen fish! How do you do it?”
The boy responded, “Roo raf roo reep ra rums rrarm.”
“What was that?” the old man asked.
Again the boy responded, “Roo raf roo reep ra rums rarrm.”
“Look,” said the old man, “I can’t understand a word you’re saying sonny.”
The boy spat the bait into his hand and said… “You have to keep the worms warm!”
