All us guys remember being forced to bathe and get all spiffied up in our pale yellow polo shirt and khakis. And that was if you were lucky and your mom didn't hate you and force a pink striped shirt on you which would forever be hung on the wall in the hallway or better yet drug out for graduation.
In looking back at family photos from when I was a kid I'm just glad I didn't inherit my ears from whomever my brother did. Sorry John but you know it's true. You may think girls had it easy and don't generally complain about looking nice or whine about having to put on a frilly dress....but girls look back at the family photos from when you were growing up and look at your hair. Wow I'm glad I didn't have that problem because I could laugh for hours just looking at my sister Shelly's varying stages of hairdom. Again sorry Shelly but it's true. I'm not without fault in these family pictures by any means....I admit I was a goofy looking kid through out the 80's. Just glad they finally let me get rid of the bowl cut fairly early in grade school cause I had enough problems without that mess to deal with.
I have dug some of these pictures out of hiding and fell on the sword and posted them willingly on Facebook so that way no one could black mail me with them or with other pictures from say homecoming or possibly prom. Now technically this photo is not from the 80's it is merely being used as an example of our family picture and to show you my siblings I mentioned in previous paragraph. So now I just smile for the camera cause I know what my boys are going through and what joy they'll have in 20 years looking back at the family Easter photo of them in their pink, pale yellow, white shirts and khakis next to their sister who is decked out from head to toe with bows, a frilly dress and fancy shoes all smiling not because they love each other so so much but because they've been bribed with chocolate bunnies, Reeces peanut butter eggs, Jolly Rancher jelly beans and peeps.
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