Word to the wise

If you are planning on spending the entire day laying large cement stones around the mother of all wading pools in the blazing sun without a shirt and the only person available to apply sunscreen to your back is a 6-year-old girl, have an adult double-check the application as soon as one is available, even if said girl swears to god, swears on her father’s eyeballs, that she did a perfect job.

9 responses to “Word to the wise

  1. Bauke

    What did she do? a big smiley face??? :-)

  2. I learned about going shirtless in the sun many years ago, at a women’s music festival. Man, did they get burnt.

  3. Just be thankful she sweared on your eyeballs and nothing else :)

  4. swore, not sweared!

  5. sue

    do we get a picture of the resulting burn?

  6. What? Big white handprints outlined in bright red sunburn?

  7. mig

    DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING!

    Mary wins today’s prize, a tube of Coppertone suntan lotion.

    My back is bright purplish-red, with a large white X in the center, from the overalls I was wearing (green for garden work) with two white handprints left and right of the X.

  8. Some people would consider that Art, you know.

  9. I’d pay money to see that.