Young Man Helms

“Doctor Helms, pleasure to meet you,” said the handsome stranger.

His baby blues peered into soul as he closed the exam room door.

“You were probably expecting my father.”

Exactly. I was expecting Old Man Helms to hobble his way in. The same Old Man Helms who delivered me nearly thirty years ago. Instead, I got this guy who looks like fell out of a men’s fitness rag.

“He retired last year, and I took over the practice.”

I nodded thoughtfully while giving him a onceover.

Clearly, I was going to have to get a skin torching sunburn more often.