Friday, July 10, 2009

Bad Bad Shot

Did anyone ever give you a picture of yourself that was a really awful picture and you were standing right next to two other people in the photo and the other people looked absolutely excellent like better than they ever did in person? And did you take the picture with you later and examine it and try to figure out just exactly how you managed to contort your face in such a way that you gave yourself extra skin where none really exists and your teeth slanted even though they are straight and your glasses somehow were halfway down your nose? And after you examined the picture did you realize that the donor of said picture had actually asked you to deliver the extra copy to another human being and that there was no choice but to "lose" the picture quickly?

If that ever happened to you, it might bother you for days thinking that you really look like an altered, horror-movie version of yourself, and you might have to make an appointment to get your hair cut and do all sorts of things before you calm down and realize it's just a photo. There will still be bad dreams, though, and you will simply have to wait to get a proverbial hold of yourself.