If you've never wasted time on the website Awkward Family Photos, I highly recommend it. But make sure you have a good hour to waste before you go there. It's addictive. Someone at The Huffington Post put together a compilation of awkward Easter photos from AFP that's pretty funny, and gives you a taste of what the site is about. Plus, Easter photos seem timely, if a day late.
Awkward Family Photos has some pretty scary and very funny photos. It's one of those great sites that it basically created by its users -- people send in strange photos of their families, and others comment on them.
Isabel and I were wasting time on it one night a couple of months ago, and as we were clicking through pictures, Isabel stopped and said, "Wait -- go back -- is that....?" and then gave the name of someone we know from work. Indeed, it was the person she thought it was. The photo in question was a family portrait; most of the family was in a standard pose, but one family member was about four feet away from the others and obviously pissed off. Given what we know about the family, we decided that one of the kids, the somewhat rebellious oldest one, had sent in the picture without anyone else in the family knowing about it. Given the family, there's no way they would have allowed it if they had known.
We couldn't keep it to ourselves, but we also couldn't come right out and ask the person if they knew about the photo, and we couldn't spread it around, lest it got back to the co-worker. So we asked two other people what to do -- they also knew the co-worker and we knew they'd be discreet. They thought it was very funny, and one suggested we just drop the words "awkward" and "family" and "photos" in casual conversation the next time we saw the co-worker.
We never did find out if our colleague knew about it or not. And we're still afraid to ask.
All of this is, of course, a roundabout way of hoping you had a Happy Easter, Passover, or just plain good weekend.
Awkward Family Photos has some pretty scary and very funny photos. It's one of those great sites that it basically created by its users -- people send in strange photos of their families, and others comment on them.
Isabel and I were wasting time on it one night a couple of months ago, and as we were clicking through pictures, Isabel stopped and said, "Wait -- go back -- is that....?" and then gave the name of someone we know from work. Indeed, it was the person she thought it was. The photo in question was a family portrait; most of the family was in a standard pose, but one family member was about four feet away from the others and obviously pissed off. Given what we know about the family, we decided that one of the kids, the somewhat rebellious oldest one, had sent in the picture without anyone else in the family knowing about it. Given the family, there's no way they would have allowed it if they had known.
We couldn't keep it to ourselves, but we also couldn't come right out and ask the person if they knew about the photo, and we couldn't spread it around, lest it got back to the co-worker. So we asked two other people what to do -- they also knew the co-worker and we knew they'd be discreet. They thought it was very funny, and one suggested we just drop the words "awkward" and "family" and "photos" in casual conversation the next time we saw the co-worker.
We never did find out if our colleague knew about it or not. And we're still afraid to ask.
All of this is, of course, a roundabout way of hoping you had a Happy Easter, Passover, or just plain good weekend.
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