The sun is like our crack

So, on Sunday I took the kiddos to my favorite local park, that has a huge playground and a water play area. We who live in the Seattle area don’t see the sun for long stretches, and when it’s out, people flee to the parks like lemmings over a ledge. It tickles me to no end to see all of the delightful winter whites (and I don’t mean the outfits) trying to lay out and color up before the next week of rain is upon us. Don’t get me wrong, people have a right to dress anyways they want to, I don’t know your story, maybe you didn’t get to the store for a decent bathing suit and all you had left was a faded Disneyland shirt and your husband’s old shorts. I understand. I’m not judging. I have friends who have to pre-tan before they actually lay in the sun so they don’t burn. I appreciate that, because the rest of us don’t enjoy watching white skin turn red. It’s like watching lobsters in a boiling pot. I people-watch. If it were a sport in the Olympics, I would be a gold-medal winner. I love to see who’s wearing what/how/why and mentally judge them in my head. No, she did NOT wear those sandals, with those toes like that?? Yes, I said before I don’t judge. I don’t judge outloud.

So, I’m watching all the white walk by, and I wonder, with all the Desert Sun Tans that are as plentiful as Starbucks here, that more people don’t tan during our rainy seasons? We used to live in Cali, and I grew up in Houston, and NOBODY is white, orange yes, but not white. I don’t care how old you were, everyone was tanned. So it always amuses me when my friends complain how white they are and need to go tanning, and I (wink wink) chime in that I don’t need to go, got my own built-in tan you know. I’m sure they are sick of that joke, but I like to mess with them on many occasions, but that is another story, another post.

Yes, I know, tanning is bad, will eventually kill you with skin cancer and wrinkly skin, but throwing pasty white skin into the sun and watching turn it burn can’t be good either. Doesn’t turning red mean you are in bad shape already? I say pre-tan, if you are going to kill yourself, take your time and do it right. And for the love of pete, put on like SPF 1000 will ya? I slather my boys up, because sun damage can happen to all skin types. Ok, I’m off the soap box….