Behind the Awkwardness: The Black Fly
March 15th, 2011
“This was from one of my dance recitals – my dance teacher chose me to be in the older girls’ dance, where they were spiders. I was dressed like a fly and buzzed around the stage until they trapped me with a white parachute (their spider web). Possibly the most embarrassing photo of me ever…”
(submitted by Jenny)
Possibly, you say?
This is in fact a great and very stylish picture! I can imagine it as a CD music cover for Red Hot Chilli Peppers or perhaps Green Day.
You’d think they could’ve taken the handles off the strainers at least !
I know how you feel, Jenny. I was also somehow employed into such dance class embarrassment.
Only instead of a fly, I was Puff the Magic Dragon in full costume and the theme of Act I was something to do with childhood — so basically I was a ‘guest’ who opened for the younger kids’ dances… it wasn’t even my segment of the recital.
I sweat bullets in the giant suit! I know there is video out there, somewhere… if anyone ever finds a photo and puts it on this website, I don’t know what I would do. hahahaha!
Is there a way to feel honored and shamed at the same time? That probably sums up that moment of my childhood.
And I thought my Chiquita Banana Girl costume when I was 12 was embarrassing…and rightly so, my face was visible! At least you can say its not you! But still, bravo for posting Jenny!
You can say you were an original fly girl, just like JLo.
Thank goodness you can’t be identified behind to two sieves.
The strainers are effing awesome.
How brave of you to post it! It’s really not that bad. It’s cute.
Luckily we can’t really see your face, so tell everyone it is your sister or cousin and nobody will be the wiser.
How is this only “possibly” your most embarassing picture?!?
It’s the strainers for eyes that truly make this picture.
How is this “possibly” the most embarassing photo of you ever?
Jenny, at least nobody can recognize you in your most embarrassing pic! You could totally deny it!
A man calls to the waiter and says, “there’s a fly in my soup. What is it doing there?” and the waiter says…. “the backstroke”. Hence, the swim cap!!!!
Honestly, those who think this is not awkward, what exactly does it take to make you think something IS awkward??
Compound bows? Photoshopping?
XD
Ahhh I see, how silly of me! LOL
What did your Mother do when the pasta was al dente?
Hahahaha
Really creative! I’m trying to imagine what the spiders wore…windshield wipers and woks, maybe a black painted bouncy ball?
Comment of the day!
That little back kick makes this pic!!
I LOVE this. I don’t think it’s awkward at all (except for you, maybe, when you’re trying to get a date with someone with zero imagination). I think it’s creative, clever and you look great.
He’s pretty fly for a white guy
peg for the win.
ahhhahahahahahahaha
“He”? You think Jenny is a boy’s name?
she!
Muwahhhaaahhhaaahhh!
Thanks for the explanation. At first I thought this was the USA Swim Team’s new hi-tech suit for the London Summer Olympics.
“POSSIBLY” the most embarrassing photo of you ever? Really? What could be worse? (please feel free to add possible suggestions)
shouldn’t this be on the awkward family pets site?
Eye strain affects millions of insects each year. Won’t you help?
*clapclapclap* Brilliant!
FTW!!!
Brilliant!
Nice!!
The handles are the fly’s mouth part, you know the long sucky thing? I’m not sure if I like the strainer eyes best or the window shade wings…hard choice really. And the others are right, you could deny this to your grave and no one would be the wiser. lol
I ballet danced in a chicken suit while I was a student in high school…now that’s embarrassing!
But where is our photo of that!??!!
Yes! Please share!
Lady GaGa would love this…but she’d lower the strainers and use them for a bra.
lol, right on.
Why didn’t anybody take the handles off of the strainers over her eyes? That’s the awkward part. It is so distracting. Despite everything else going on in this picture, the handles are all I can look at.
I initially thought the same thing. Then I thought that it actually mimics the nasty mouth bits of a fly, so it works all around, and is actually doubly clever for that reason.
HONEY! if this is embarrassing… you ain’t lived! we can not even see your face. you can blame this one on just about any body else.
How in the world did you see?
Is that a pair of sunscreens and some strainers?! Hahahaha!!!
Haha–the strainers for the eyes are the best!
I was thinking the exact same thing!
cute! strange, but creative.
I LOVE the eyes.
Me too! I’m totally borrowing that idea for Halloween!
well the good thing is….your most embarassing photo and you aren’t recognizable.
Funds were cut that year.
That’s child abuse.
Seriously! I just can’t imagine saying to my son “Here, where these mini strainers over your eyes and dance with girls”.
That isn’t a boy….
Are you sure that’s not a boy?
Well it was submitted by Jenny, who seems to have also written the back story, in the first person, so I’d say it’s a girl.
No, I think it’s Brundle-Fly’s awkward adolescence.
(Help meeeeeeeeeeee!)
XD
haha brundle fly!
initiate sequence…
I actually think this is pretty cute and not awkward at all.