I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist.

 


I noticed his BDS degree 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 25-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 Xavier’s high school.


 


“Yes. yes, I did”, he gleamed with pride.


 


“When did you graduate?”, I asked.


 


He answered, “In 1987. 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, idiot, asked,


 


“What subject did you teach?”