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Pompano - 12-18-2013 at 12:43 PM

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, 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 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 Morgan 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-burroed, gray-haired, decrepit son-of-a-b-tch asked,.

"What did you teach???"

[Edited on 12-18-2013 by Pompano]

Barry A. - 12-18-2013 at 12:47 PM

Ain't it the truth!!!! I see myself in the mirror and think, "hmmm, not that bad". They I see a recent photograph of me and think, "Oh My Gawd"!!!!!! :(

Barry

55steve - 12-18-2013 at 01:06 PM

Classic!

wessongroup - 12-18-2013 at 01:08 PM

Thanks ... :):)

Tbone - 12-18-2013 at 01:11 PM

Why is it the photo is so much worse then looking in the mirror?

Loretana - 12-18-2013 at 02:20 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Tbone
Why is it the photo is so much worse then looking in the mirror?


Perception vs reality :D

Pompano - 12-18-2013 at 02:43 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Loretana
Quote:
Originally posted by Tbone
Why is it the photo is so much worse then looking in the mirror?


Perception vs reality :D



La senorita is correct.

desertcpl - 12-18-2013 at 02:49 PM

very funny, but true

Marc - 12-18-2013 at 07:45 PM

I look into the mirror and see my father.:no::no::no:

BajaBlanca - 12-18-2013 at 09:56 PM

It is so true! Looking at a photo is not so fun any more. But I have learned to just smile and know that I sure looked different once.

Skipjack Joe - 12-18-2013 at 11:57 PM

In my younger days we used to joke around with -

"You is uglier than sin"

The great thing about aging is that it doesn't happen suddenly. It gives you time to adjust.

Cypress - 12-19-2013 at 03:56 AM

Yep! All my old classmates have grown old and grey. :biggrin:

bledito - 12-19-2013 at 06:25 PM

no grey yet well not too much, a few happy wrinkles, and the eye twinkle. middle age ? when does that end?

Pompano - 12-19-2013 at 06:43 PM

Sent from my hospital bed....

I was walking across the street an hour ago with my camera.... just had time to take this shot before it was lights out!

DavidT - 12-19-2013 at 06:57 PM

Someone handed me a picture and said, "This is a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture of you is when you were younger.
"Here's a picture of me when I'm older." Where'd you get that camera man?

Mitch Hedberg

Skipjack Joe - 12-19-2013 at 07:04 PM

Great thread. I think we should each post the most unflattering current picture we can find of ourselves.

Pompano - 12-19-2013 at 07:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Great thread. I think we should each post the most unflattering current picture we can find of ourselves.


...and the silence was deafening...

55steve - 12-19-2013 at 07:37 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Marc
I look into the mirror and see my father.:no::no::no:


My father is precisely who looks back at me also...

[Edited on 12-20-2013 by 55steve]

DianaT - 12-19-2013 at 07:38 PM

Oh, that is just too funny and too real.

OK, Igor, I will go first. Here is a picture of me two days ago walking around the petroglyphs in Chidago Canyon. I am in the rocks, a bit behind and to the left of Tommy Dog.



That is as close as I like to be to a camera. :biggrin: :biggrin:

[Edited on 12-20-2013 by DianaT]

Pompano - 12-19-2013 at 07:43 PM

Two can play at that game, Diane.

Get out the magnifying glass...it's bit scary.


DianaT - 12-19-2013 at 07:47 PM

:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

Photo curtesy of Kaiser

durrelllrobert - 12-19-2013 at 07:53 PM

Pompano - 12-20-2013 at 07:40 PM

"Mirror, mirror...on the wall. Who the hell is that??!!"

Justbozo - 12-20-2013 at 08:34 PM

I stole this from Bill Cosby, but I love it.

When I was young, I was hard, lean and mean.
Now after my shower I bend over to dry my feet and a quart of water runs out of my belly button!:tumble:

Bajatripper - 12-23-2013 at 02:23 PM

Too funny! As a member of the HS class of '74, I can relate.

Bob H - 12-23-2013 at 04:11 PM

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake!!
Bob Hope (another Bob H)

Timo1 - 12-23-2013 at 04:17 PM

I've never met a camera that survived my picture

wetto - 12-26-2013 at 10:32 AM

loving it. I see my grandfather in the mirror.