Photos That Embarrass You Even Today

Lee

Lee

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Parents seem to love to take these pictures to embarrass us when we get older.

Mine is me about 5 years old standing on a mound of sand in the backyard, one finger pointing to my head, and the other hand pointing to my bum. Stark naked of course, my clothes are outside the sandbox.

Another is me after giving myself a haircut when the babysitter was sleeping. The school class picture was the next day and I wanted to look pretty. I still remember that spanking.
 

Lee said:
Parents seem to love to take these pictures to embarrass us when we get older.

Mine is me about 5 years old standing on a mound of sand in the backyard, one finger pointing to my head, and the other hand pointing to my bum. Stark naked of course, my clothes are outside the sandbox.

Another is me after giving myself a haircut when the babysitter was sleeping. The school class picture was the next day and I wanted to look pretty. I still remember that spanking.
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Sad about the spanking you got. I sincerely hope it wasn't the babysitter that warmed your bottom, because as far as I'm concerned, the only spanking due should have been reserved for your sitter.

One of my daughters gave her baby brother a hair-cutting like no other, and believe me, I've seen a few doozies in my day. I was furious, not in respect to the mess my daughter created on her baby brother, and not even at my daughter for giving baby a haircut, but furious at myself for allowing my guard down long enough to allow a window of opportunity for my daughter to fetch a pair of scissors from the drawer, and go work creating her own art project. Thoughts of missing eyes, scars on faces, and even worse, flooded my mind. I was grateful for the extent of what damage was done, and thankful as to what damage wasn't done.

I have many, but the one that stands out the most for me, is a toilet training picture, where my pants are down around my ankles, my cute little flowered sundress pulled up around my chest, and there I am sitting proudly on my little wooden baby potty.
 
Do want to add, there really are no photos of me as a little one that truly embarrass me, but I love your direction and idea behind this thread, Lee! :)
 
I was lucky, my parents were very modest and old fashioned, I don't ever even remember seeing a picture of me or my siblings without clothes, even as infants. I never had children, but if I did, I would go the route of my parents and not take those types of photos.
 
Aunt Marg said:
Do want to add, there really are no photos of me as a little one that truly embarrass me, but I love your direction and idea behind this thread, Lee! :)
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Don't have to be baby photos necessarily. We all get those funny photos at every age. I still cringe at a pic taken after falling out of a boat into a bog. The swamp monster complete with seaweed hair.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I was lucky, my parents were very modest and old fashioned, I don't ever even remember seeing a picture of me or my siblings without clothes, even as infants. I never had children, but if I did, I would go the route of my parents and not take those types of photos.
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I can honestly say, my parents were as old-fashioned as old-fashioned could be, and mom (for the most part) was the picture taker in the family, and I can't tell you how many pictures there are between my three childhood photo albums that have captured me showing off my birthday suit, and for the times... the 1960's, I don't see it as being at all out of line.
 
I have a couple that surface from time to time.

The pictures don't bother me but I do question the motive/need that people have to drag them out and pass them around in an effort to embarrass me.

If they only knew some of the embarrassing moments that I've had in the past half-century! :giggle:
 
Aunt Marg said:
Do want to add, there really are no photos of me as a little one that truly embarrass me, but I love your direction and idea behind this thread, Lee! :)
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Actually my parents never took photos to purposely embarrass any of us either. There aren’t a lot of photos they took of us but the ones they took were all because they were enjoying the moment and wanted memories of it.
 
I have a few family pix from the late 40s and early 50s, including one of me, age of less than 1, in the buff, laying on a blanket (on my tummy..). I'm not at all embarrassed by it, but I would never post it on line.
I do remember, after my first wife passed away, I went thru 100s of pictures and slides and threw away any of me that I didn't like. Did a similar exercise a couple of years ago with the digital pictures I had stored on an old tower machine. Over 11,000 photos. No idea how many got the "delete" option. 100s at least
 
There was a time when it was deemed unsuitable for women to wear trousers. Probably something that some stuffed shirt of a politician or clergyman dreamed up. Of course it wasn't unsuitable when the ladies worked in every sphere of industry during the war, so come peace time, it was back to dresses and skirts, could be that those same stuffed shirts had an ulterior motive. It wasn't just Marilyn that got caught out by a playful wind.
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Did you know that our Queen has small lead weights sewn into the hems of all her skirts and dresses to keep the paparazzi disappointed. You can read about it in Angela Kelly's book, The Other Side of the Coin. Angela is the Queen's dresser.
Maybe Princess Margaret should have employed her too.

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