Doing to them what they do to us

When I was a wee lad of 17 attending my first year of University, I had a first year calculus class with a curmudgeonly old professor who looked like Albert Einstein's fatter brother. His classes were standing room only. Seriously, there were 200-300 students jammed into a lecture hall that should have only held about 150.

At the time Brian Mulroney was Prime Minister, and of course everyone was gossiping that this math prof who looked every inch the mathematical genius (wild hair, strange glasses, stranger clothes, and a weird yet effective teaching manner of having running dialogues with himself in which he'd refer to himself in the third person as "wise old fat man") was the ex of a certain Justice Minister at the time.

One of the braver (and prettier) students in the first row decided to ask him at the start of class.

He stared at her for a moment and said:

"All I'll say, is that I'm one of the few people in this country that did to one of them what each and every one of them do to us every day!"

Some of the slower students didn't get it until the thunderous applause started to die down.

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I wonder what reminded me of that this week.