at the dentist's
Ret's ESL Jokes
I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed her DMD diploma on the wall, which displayed her full name. Suddenly I remembered a tall, sexy, dark-haired girl with the same name who’d been in my high school class some 30-odd years ago. Could this be the same gal I’d had a secret, burning crush on back then?
When she came in, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This grey-haired woman with sagging breasts was far too old to have been my classmate.
After she examined my teeth, I asked if she had attended Maryville High School.
“As a matter of fact… yes, I did. I’m a Red Rebel,” she said, gleaming with pride.
“When did you graduate?” I asked.
“In 1979. Why do you ask?”
“You were in my class!” I exclaimed.
She looked at me closely. Then that ageing, old, wrinkle-faced, grey-haired, decrepit woman with sagging boobs asked, “What did you teach?”
Vocabulary
DMD diploma: Doctor of Dental Medicine degree
crush: strong romantic attraction (colloquial)
gleaming with pride: shining ↔ beaming because of pride
sagging breasts ↔ sagging boobs: breasts that have lost firmness (due to age)
+ I have an appointment with the dentist tomorrow.
+ He had a huge crush on her in secondary school.
+ She was gleaming with pride when her son graduated.
Grammar Focus
1. Past perfect: earlier past events: “who’d ↔ who had been in my class”.
2. Reported questions (no inversion or question mark): “I asked if she’d done it.”
3. Exclamations: “You were in my class!” I exclaimed.
+ By the time I arrived, the film had already started.
+ He asked me where I had been the night before.
Synonyms & Alternatives
crush: infatuation, puppy love, a thing for someone
grey-haired: silver-haired, white hair
sagging breasts: drooping bosom, pendulous breasts
Mini Dialogue
Patient: You look familiar. Were we at university together?
Dentist: Possibly. When did you graduate?
Patient: 1998!
Dentist: Oh… and what subject did you teach?
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