I think it's fair to say that little girls love shoes. And like many young girls, my daughter and her friends have always enjoyed trying on "Mommy Shoes" when out shopping. It makes them feel all grown up and Cinderella-ish.
I have dozens of photos like this one taken throughout the years.
Over the years however the "Mommy Shoes" have graduated to what I'll refer to here as "Street Walker" shoes. Meg will gravitate to the tallest platform, highest heeled, gaudiest pair of shoes on the rack and then parade around the store until she finds me. This is exactly what she did over the Christmas holiday while shopping with my mother and me. After prancing around in several different pairs I finally asked for a photo. This time however I didn't take the usual "feet" photo but a full sized photo. You'll understand why in a moment....
Meg is 5'8". My mother is/was 5'3" (sorry Mom). Add in the shoes and those legs and yeah, you get the picture. Hilarious, isn't it? We certainly thought so. In fact, it reminds me of the photos of Robert Wadlow that you see at the Ripley's Believe it or Not museums. Well read on...
My mom emailed the photo to a very close friend of hers. "Said friend" gets quite a kick out of it. (I mean, who wouldn't?) Anyway, a day or two later "said friend" emails my mother back with this...
"I noticed that the photo of Meg modeling those shoes disappeared from your message while it was sitting in my inbox. I wondered about it, but didn't think too much of it. Then, just now, I was checking my spam folder, and there it was, with a red-lettered notice: "This message contains blocked images." It had a "show images" thing to click on, and there she was. Meg's short shorts or those shoes scandalized Yahoo and got blocked as porn?!"
ROFLMBO! Seriously???? What bozo at Yahoo created the "let's flag photos of 13 year old girls shopping for shoes at Dillard's with their grandmothers" as inappropriate? Makes ya wonder, huh?
Meanwhile I'm thinking that I can give away the bread machine we got her for Christmas. (She loves her carbs and recently announced that she wanted to own a bakery so she could eat fresh bread all day. LOL!) It's now apparent that my daughter has many other opportunities available to her. *sigh*
It will be interesting to see what the "Blogger 'Bots" think of my family photo.
3 comments:
That picture just makes me laugh!
OMG I'm laughing so hard!! That is too funny. I had no idea Meg was THAT tall to begin with.
Wow on getting flagged as porn. She does have legs three miles long, but that's not porn! Idiots. Love the shoe thing, though.
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