Embarrassing pictures
embarrassing, Fun August 18th, 2007I was talking to my student assistant yesterday about some really bad pictures of me as a kid. It happens I had some particularly embarrassing ones floating around on my website and showed him this. The poor kid. Didn’t know WHAT to say. 
Christmas, 1970. There is so much scary stuff in this picture. I think I’m wearing a smock-thing made of really bad fabric probably not meant for clothes. What is Ann wearing? Those pants!!! What is with the pants?!?! And just what is Dad doing? Is that part of a bike? A balloon animal in the making? Bert and Ernie are hanging out behind us. Ernie still had his hair. He later lost it in the "Scissor Incident of 1971," perpetrated by me.
Stay tuned to this channel for more of the same. The best (or should I say the worst?) pictures are not surprisingly from the 1970s.
Stumble it!
August 18th, 2007 at 3:13 am
Kathy, If you think that’s bad, wait ’till you get a load of one of mine. You’ve given me the courage to post it.
August 18th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Bring it on, Bernie. I have another one in my stash that I call “the worst picture in the history of picture-taking.” I don’t think it’ll see the light of day, but I’m tempted to post it just to make people feel better about themselves.
August 18th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Oh, that’s pretty mad. Well, there’s a picture of me somewhere in a photo album. I have pudding in my hair. It’s from preschool. But I put pudding in my hair! Then someone took a picture! It’s pretty bad…
August 21st, 2007 at 2:40 pm
You have a great sense of humor Kathy, I haven’t been brave enough to put my picture online yet, but I find your blog fun to read.
August 21st, 2007 at 4:22 pm
A.D, Glad you like the blog. You know, I don’t know if it’s brave or stupid, or both, to post these pictures. I have plenty more where that came from. The worst ones are me at the age of 12-13. I don’t know if I have the guts to put those up. It’ll probably only happen if I blog while drunk, which is to say never, because I don’t drink.
June 16th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
where did ann of the shampoo bottle get those pants WOW
June 17th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
brooke — I know! It’s inexplicable! They must have been leftover scraps from something else our mom was sewing. Crazy, even for the 70’s.
June 18th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Of course those trousers were made from a pair of 1960’s curtains ha ha! Now I feel old, I was a married woman by then :O)
Babs – beetle’s last blog post..The Mosaic Picture Meme
June 18th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Babs — Seriously, they could have been made from material my mother was using for rags or curtains or something. (And you’re only as old as you feel and something tells me you don’t feel old at all!)
June 20th, 2008 at 6:19 am
You’re right there! In public I’m 35, in private I’m anywhere between 10 and 15 ;O)
Babs – beetle’s last blog post..Not guilty.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Babs beetle — I’m probably in the single digit age!