Why I Despise Button-Downs
“I don’t know what my favorite part of this picture is: the blank stare (I wore glasses and couldn’t see anything), the pulled back hair, my gap-tooth ‘smile,’ or the shirt, buttoned ALLLLLL the way to the top, which features a dog pissing on a fire hydrant. It’s a wonder I had any friends. I’m pretty sure this shirt is the reason I despise wearing button downs.”
(submitted by Christina)
Totally 80’s
“I love this photo because there was no doubt in my mind that I looked absolutely awesome that day. This was my favorite look and I rocked it with zero shame. Incidentally, it would be years before a boy actually liked me, but I was too cool to care.”
(submitted by Amber)
Permfection
“This is me. What in the world my mom was thinking when she did this to me, I cannot say. Between the homespun clothes and the perm gone wrong, I never had a chance.”
(submitted by Jen)
Keep Your Eye On The Ball
“My brother threw a ball at my eye when I was 10 years old and it was picture day two weeks later. My eye stayed like this for 4 years. I was also in Special Ed at the time. I think this is why I became a stand-up comic.”
(submitted by Manolis)
I’m Just Not Seeing It
“A lot of people say my son looks just like me, many people call him my “Mini Me”. I decided to take our pictures and put them together…..I don’t know, I’m just not seeing it.”
(submitted by Jason)
Bottomless Christmas
“This is my family’s Christmas photo in 2005. I’m not sure why my dad and brother would not put on pants.”
(submitted by Molly)
Grabbing My Attention
“I’m a photographer at a Sears Portrait Studio and I conned my mother and her new husband to come get some photos made with me. I was having difficulty smiling without making the squinty-eye face. I guess my mom was getting tired of waiting on me to finally get my act together, so she reached up and grabbed my boob to make me laugh. This was the result. I couldn’t make that face again if I tried. Not surprisingly, this is my mother’s biggest and most natural smile in the whole 2 hour session! Mom’s poor new husband doesn’t even know what he got himself into…”
Big Baby
“Between his giant, hairless head and his adorable neck wrinkles, my fiance, Andrew, still looks exactly like his baby pictures. The first time I visited his parents and saw the old photos, I knew what their Christmas present would be the next year.
I scanned in the original sepia toned baby pics, and spend a day demanding Andrew recreate them. This wasn’t as fun as we thought it would be, because it involved me directing Andrew to do impossible things like “make your chin more wrinkled, but don’t tip your head down. Look towards the sun, but don’t squint and don’t frown. Giggle like a baby! No, no, not like that. Be more cute! Eyes wider but also make your neck fatter and relax your shoulders! Stay still while a smear this donut on you.” Anyway, we learned I’m bad at art directing and he’s real bad at being a baby, but the photo collage came out amazing. He’s adorable, then and now.”
(submitted by Katie)
The Chaperones
‘This photo was taken before my elementary school’s annual Father Daughter dance. My sister and I are standing alongside our father on the right, our family friends are to the left, and two motherly chaperones had a little too much to drink and took it upon themselves to pose in our photo with us. It ended up looking like a polygamist advertisement. It was quite the experience & the picture just exudes awkward.”
(submitted by Savannah)
Anything You Can Do
“This is my older daughter – her sister is the one laughing hysterically on the bed. The little one had been doing ‘acrobatic’ moves jumping through the spaces on her bunk bed ladder, and her big sister thought it would be funny to try it herself. After I finished laughing hysterically and running to another room to get the camera, I did eventually help her get free.”
(submitted by Holly)
