A belt buckle wide as the Texas sky
Below is the family photo I’ve been promising to post. Don’t look at this picture while drinking coffee or you might have it coming out your nose when you burst into uncontrolled laughter; this is an embarassing picture. This picture is probably from either Spring 1982 when I was in second grade, or Fall 1982 when I was in third grade. Click on the picture for an enlargement, if you really want to treat your eyes to something utterly retro!
![McCrady Family Photo [1982]](http://homepage.mac.com/matthewmccrady/.Pictures/School%20Pictures/Eighties_Family.jpg)
Feel free to mock us, if you wish. I’m going to engage in a little of that myself.
I wish I could go back in time and tell my Mom that even in 1982, her eyeglasses were out of style. And Dad, get a haircut. Shorter hair is always a good thing. As for myself, that belt and buckle would only look right on a Texas midget. If I recall correctly, the belt buckle had a tractor/trailer rig on it. A trucker uncle of mine gave it to me.
I have asked my Mom for a copy of the photo of me in my tee ball uniform. I’ll post that one as soon as I have it. I wish I’d had it to illustrate my memoir of tee ball.
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I’m kinda a retro gal, so I enjoy seeing these dated photos. We all have them to match, I’m sure. I left a lot of my photos at home while in Belgium, and there’s one like this of my mom, dad, and me before my brother was born. I think I had missing teeth and Dad had oversized sunglasses.
But, hey, those glasses are ‘in’ again, which makes me shake my head.
Comment by wadulisi — Thursday, 28 July 2005 @ 3:33 pm
oops - oversized tinted glasses
Comment by wadulisi — Thursday, 28 July 2005 @ 3:34 pm
Are those kind of glasses really in style now? My Mom’s might be, since they are relatively small, but octagonal shaped. My Dad’s glasses cannot be in style today. What’s kind of interesting for me to think about is that in 1982 or ‘83 when this picture was taken, my Mom and Dad would have been just 30 years old, about a year younger than myself today. I don’t feel as old as they look (if that makes any sense), and I wonder if they felt old or young at that age. They look older than thirty, I think.
Comment by Matthew — Thursday, 28 July 2005 @ 3:46 pm
I didn’t laugh at your picture. I’ve got plenty of the same ilk.
As for age of your parents… my parents were 23 or so when they had me. I long passed that age. Now I’m past the age when they had their second child.
I don’t feel that old. I don’t want to have kids. Maybe that’s part of it. Several years ago, I asked my dad when he thought he was an adult. He said maybe he thought he was grown up when he got married at 19. But on reflection, he said he probably wasn’t adult then, and possibly not until sometime after he had a child.
Comment by Mel B. — Friday, 29 July 2005 @ 2:40 am
Check these out:
http://www.focusonstyle.com/style-pack/designersunglasses.htm
Comment by wadulisi — Friday, 29 July 2005 @ 8:41 am
I didn’t particularly laugh at this photo either, and I don’t even have any similar ones that I’m protecting there. I don’t know, the clothes are outdated of course, but not wildly so, and it’s a nice family photo. It’s ok if family photos are cheesy. It’s the teenage yearbook photos, where someone’s trying to look all cool that always crack me up.
I like your point above about feeling younger than they look. Makes me wish I had a photo of myself and my parents when I was a kid. I wonder what my parents looked like when I was my daughters’ ages. I’ve got two kids now, 4 & 2, and sometimes I feel very much like an adult and sometimes I still feel like I’m not really old enough to drive a car or to be trusted with anything important.
Comment by Scrivener — Friday, 29 July 2005 @ 9:38 am
Well, thank you all for not laughing (though I laugh a little myself). I was really kind of wary abut posting this one. And Melissa, those sunglasses are pretty wild.
Most of the time I look at myself and wonder what happened. I’m thirty, but I feel maybe twenty…not old enough to be trusted with anything important, as you say Scrivener. On the other hand, when I can’t sleep at night, or I get up with my back killing me, then I feel about sixty.
Comment by Matthew — Friday, 29 July 2005 @ 9:05 pm
What a great picture and so typical of the times!
Comment by Brandi — Thursday, 11 August 2005 @ 11:07 pm