Last of a Dying Breed

So I teach middle school math at a large Saturday program for minority students to help improve their skills and give them extra help for standardized tests. I started January 2007 and I usually teach 5th to 7th grade math. This year they wanted me to teach 8th grade algebra. I was hesitant at first, but I figured out what I was gonna teach and how I was gonna teach it and things have worked out surprisingly well.

Across the hall from me is a man who also teaches 8th grade algebra. A couple years back he asked me for my phone number and wanted to date me but the man is 42 years old!!! He has a daughter in high school and a son who is 25! I had to tell him "Look dude....I'm 23. Something does not seem appropriate about this. Plus I work with you."Alright. Case closed. So I thought.....

He comes into my classroom last Saturday morning before class started and asked me if I needed any "help" or "assistance" with figuring out what to do with the kids. I am one of the few non-certified teachers teaching in the program. He suggested I come and observe him teach so I could learn a thing or two. EXCUSE ME? Yeah. I don't need your help. Then he proceeded to let me know that I would regret not dating him and that he was one of the "last of a dying breed." LOL. Yup. Boo Boo the Fool just told me that he was the "last of a dying breed."

I wish people would do some self reflection every now and then. Dude is up here in a tired linen pant suit (in the winter time), raggedy leather loafers, and black leather baseball cap from 1992 trying to mack a 23 year old? I wanted to ask him, "What is it about you that make women your own age not want to date you?"

To me, 42 is way too old. 32 is my limit. We're in two different realms.....
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I remember when In Living Color premiered. You remember when Different Strokes premiered.

It just ain't gonna work!

Old, dirty men need to stop trying to catch them a pretty, young thing and get it together. Reason #543 why I'm still living single. That is all.