Keeping Dad Company
“This is a picture of when I was 2 years old. My dad was going to the bathroom and I’d always love to join him and read the paper with him.”
(submitted by Amber)
Harnessing His Power
“In 1991, I was diagnosed with epilepsy. My Father, at the time, was a photographer whose studio was in our home. After a long day of tests and hospital visits, he decided to take this photo of me in my epilepsy test equipment, which is worn over a few days… I still don’t know why he took it, but what you see here is a shirtless, awesome looking ten-year-old boy with acid-washed jeans and perfectly feathered hair.”
(submitted by Jesse)
Minus Mom
“This is a family photo that was taken back in 2004. My Mom stepped out of frame to take off her glasses at the last second and the photographer (having had no warning that she was going to do so) kept shooting anyway. My Dad, brother, and I all had quite different reactions.”
(submitted by Kelsey)
You Stole My Easter
‘I think I’m around 3 years old in this photo and my brother would have been around 7. Although I don’t remember anything about what was in those baskets, I do remember being tremendously upset that my brother had stolen mine and refused to give it back. My parents still say they were basically the same basket with maybe one or two things different, but even now I’m not buying it.”
(submitted by Jonathon)
The Hands Off Approach
“My sister’s date’s epic hovering hand. The awkwardness was thick. Rush fans don’t often get dates to dances, and here it shows.”
(submitted by Sam)
Broken Wings
“This photo is so 90s, I can’t look directly at it without getting eyestrain. I am 13-14 here, so this is about 1992. The carefully-constructed bird’s wing bangs, the big earrings, the dress-over-a-shirt combo… and this was before I knew how to tame my eyebrows, so there’s that, too. The only thing I can be grateful for is that I was not allowed to wear makeup yet. I can only imagine how that would have turned out.
I did not date at all in high school.”
(submitted by Anna)
My Mother’s Blood, Sweat, And Tears
“I think I’m somewhere around 10 in this photo, which would put it somewhere in the mid-80s. This hairstyle is the result of curlers left in overnight and a curling iron in the morning, and a lot of my mother’s blood, sweat, and tears. It is little wonder why I had no friends as a child.”
(submitted by Anna)
Digger The Dermatophyte
“The Lamisil commercial featuring the toe fungus ‘Digger the Dermatophyte’ caught my four-year-old’s eye just before Halloween. She had a great time at the party. She was so pooped that she went to bed still in costume. I have a picture the next morning with her clutching her tail! I don’t know at what point during the party the tail came off but she still had it!”
(submitted by Beth)
The Great Escape
“We were at the Oregon coast. Our daughter wouldn’t join the pic and skipped off.”
(submitted by Lisa)
