Most people had to grow into their ears.  I, on the other hand, had to grow into my teeth.  I grew up thinking my name was “fpptt fpttt” because everyone who was anyone always tucked their lower lip snugly under their two front teeth while making silly rabbit sounds whenever they addressed me.  Bugs Bunny was my hero, so I didn’t mind that much.  Well, O.K. after about 12 years it started to get a little old, so I learned how to hold my jaw just right so that my teeth didn’t bump into everything in front of me.

They say childhood is bliss.  I say childhood is the reason psychiatrists drive shiny new BMW’s.  It is really too bad children aren’t born with an owner’s manual including specific oil changing directions.  Somehow anti-freeze was mistakenly poured into my carburetor and I’ve been misfiring ever since.  Have I dealt with it all?  Of course - and I must admit, sometimes I even like my little quirks.  After all, wasn’t your favorite car the one you had to kick the left rear tire three times and touch the steering wheel with your right pinky toe while saying three “hail AMC Hornets painted green” before she would fire up in the morning?

I love that picture. It’s perfect!

I grew up thinking my name was “fpptt fpttt”

omg.  that line is great....

Hey, I had to grow into my teeth, too.  My classmates called me “Chiclets”, though, after the gum that came in small, square pieces.

Oh, you’re cute!
With me it was my hair, curly, spirally and if I comb it, frizzy. My grandmas and aunts would always fawn over it and exclaim, “You’ll never go bald!” I didn’t know what they meant; ladies don’t go bald. It took me until just about when I was out of school, 18 or so, to appreciate my hair and learn that ladies can indeed go bald!

gr8888t picture. My hangup when I was a kid was my skinny long legs. I was taller than even the boys in my class. I think everyone has something about them that they didn’t like when they were a kid.

I feel your pain in the way only a fellow blonde buck-tooth can.

I love how you write. Will visit again.

V xx

love the pic- I was the girl with the firzzy hair and big nose in school… wait, I still am....

The line… “Most people had to grow into their ears.  I, on the other hand, had to grow into my teeth.” threw me into histerics! You are so funny!!!!! I *wanted* to have buck teeth as a kid. I thought they were adorable. After having just said that, I am happy we don’t always get what we wish for!

:O)

Was that you?  You’re a cutie!  I would share young pictures of me, except my scanner don’t work.  -grr-

I grew up with the name Winona.  People (people who dont even LISTEN to country music) used to call me Judd and they would SING at me....

“Gran’pa..tell me bout the good ole days...”

I was the girl with the home perm from her mom and the flourescent pink braces.  You were a cutie!

And yeah, my favorite car was the one I had to kick start.

I like my quirks too.  Which is good cuz I have enough to fill my old pos kick started Geo. 

I got shit for my teeth, too, except mine are perfectly straight and aligned perfectly, so it was usually along the lines of “I’m going to punch you so your teeth look like the rest of ours do, you bitch.”

Also? That photo is damn adorable.

Ahhh- the wisdom of Tom Robbins.

So glad I found this blog!  Funny, funny stuff!

My childhood downfall was my hair.  It took me 30 years to find a cut that suited me.  Heh.

Great bloggage!  Have ya bookmarked!