Yeah. I know I’m hot.
I have posted that picture before, because it never is not funny to me. The way the bikini is basically cutting off my circulation, and the cruel humor of putting a girl baby in a bikini in the first place – like what, exactly, is the point of that? It can only be comedy. Yes, I was a creature of comedy for my parents. Also, I don’t look too thrilled, do I, even though I am surrounded by floating toys. I look at all of them like, “Nah, I’m just not feelin’ it right now …”
The best part of this is the last time I was home visiting Mum, I was sitting in the study at my parents’ house, on the computer. My mother walked into the room, holding a tiny washing basin, grey plastic. She held it up to me, as though I should recognize it.
“Look.” she said.
“What is that?”
She said, “You sat in this, wearing a bikini.”
It was so small that I couldn’t believe it – and I also didn’t think I had ever seen it before. It still exists? Gotta love my parents. They know how to keep things, and use them, throughout generations. Why throw out a small washing basin just because it had its heyday in the late 60s?
I kept staring at it, mesmerized. Once upon a time I was small enough to sit in that damn thing??
Oh Lord! This is too much. I love how you’re seriously contemplating the experience. “Hmmmm, this clown thingy, which I’ve often played with before is reacting quite differently in this environment. I’d better not let go of the side of this basin, no telling what could happen.”
“is reacting quite differently in this environment” – hahahaha I’m howling!!
Yes, and seriously, I need to hold on TIGHT – because that basin may just start careening thru the atmosphere and I need to be ready.
The little eggman in the yellow hat has turned his head–“I think I’m seeing something I’m not supposed to.” Either that, or you turned him around–“Don’t look at me like that. I didn’t choose to wear this.”
hahahaha yeah, I think it’s that second one, DBW.
“I realize what I look like right now. Please don’t judge me.”
I must say, the shape of your head is totally elegant. Absolute perfection. But the bikini top is working against you here (something Tim Gunn might say). Look at those “beads” – man, I remember those! Snap them together to make a necklace . . . great! xxx S
A whole new definition of “above ground pool”.
Very cute.
That bikini top doesn’t look too stable…a sign of things to come???
This breaks my heart in two.
I can’t stop laughing at David’s comment!
Oh, you’re so adorable! I love how seriously and almost wearily you’re pondering the problem in front of you: “Look, I may only have a clown & five beads, but there’s not enough room for all of us in here!” You look like you’re soberly considering which one of you goes over the side for the greater good.
I love the way you’re so quietly poised, as if you’re determinedly rising above the indignity of the bikini.
LMAO! “…you’re determinedly rising above the indignity of the bikini.”
Aren’t we all, A? Aren’t we all???
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I was going to say something in a self-loathing vein like: That is STILL what I look like when I wear a bikini, but I decided to restrain myself.
Until I just made this comment.
A –
//Look, I may only have a clown & five beads, ….//
I’m dying!
Skyward reference? A duck and five books? All roads lead back to Skyward. Even the NY Daily News understands that.
Skyward reference? A duck and five books?
Yes, exactly that reference! Thank you for setting up the joke by ensuring you had the right number of things. Even so early in life, you were instinctively drawn to that perfect combination of one & five objects.
De – HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
//that perfect combination of one & five objects//
I’m dying! I have truly lost it now!!