There are way too many students in the UCC right now that have skin the same pigment as a half ripened tomato. It’s absolutely comical. It’s the shade of red that comes after a week-end of tanning when you were fairly white before. 9-5 office working, holiday week-end tan guys. I shouldn’t make fun, this will probably be me in a year.
This place is packed again. I bought three donuts and a large coffee loaded with more sugar and creme. Beside me is a girl in a teal shirt having a lunch of strawberries, carrots, crackers and bottled water. She was alone until a tomato friend came over and sat down with her. And you know what he said? “You’re looking nice and tanned”. ha! Ha!!! She looks normal. You look like a lobster, I’m having considerable difficulty not staring at you. Your bright face has pushed all thought out of my head.
The Ancient Undergrad 
Hehehe! Yes, I’ve been seeing these tomato people all over too! Has no one heard of sunblock?! And tans don’t look good. In five years, those same people will be walking pieces of leather.RYC: You know, I have way too many Seinfeld moments too. Stupid little things, weird conversations, even stranger situations… I tell myself don’t be freaky like the characters on Seinfeld! Yet i always revert… I’m not Elaine or Jerry or George and certain not Kramer. I have bits of each. Are you like any particular character on there?
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yuk it up. I am one of those tomato people, and proud of it. who _doesn’t_ think that a red-and-white striped body is attractive?!
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ROFL…..
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Heh. Tans suck, they make you all wrinkley and old looking sooner. I’m glad I’m pale.
ryc: Nope not engaged that was my right hand in the mirror… looks like the left but it’s a flipped image. I should show off that ring, it’s white gold with emeralds and diamonds. It was from my Justin for Xmas.
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Just about everyone around here has been looking mighty red as you’ve described. Not too hard to believe since we live in a desert, but still surprising none the less. At first I thought it was some kind of sub-human migration or something! I think the only migration this time of year is the Beerbelly at the waterpark. A frightening creature indeed.
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lol! Don’t you love seeing all the lobsters? It is just too funny! 🙂 I’m glad I didn’t get burned! 🙂
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I burn and I’m freckled.
For that I’d get heckled.
Sad sad sad sad,
Redheaded skin is bad bad bad.
That is funny that you blogged that girl’s lunch.
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mmmmm… donuts sounds good right nowlol, i think happy boogie was high when she wrote that
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Hehe, ‘tomato friend’… it could be worse… like having one tanned arm, like me, from driving with the windows rolled down. 😦
I crashed into the damn car because it was parallel parked directly in front of my friend’s driveway, on the other side of the street. Stupid boy. (Not you, the emo kid.)
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mmm lobster… sweet like candy
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you and your donuts
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despite sunblock application, i think i’m the only brown person who sun burns. it hurts.
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The indian in me somehow has over powered the irish when it comes to tanning, burning and the like. I always thought it was funny though that indians were called red skins. I can imagine what the plains looked like in the summer sand somehow I just don’t see the indian with the red skin. I always smile at that.
I think you have a mild addiction to donuts.
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speaking of canada, are donuts really popular there, or something? my sister said when she was there (i think she was in B.C.), that at fast-food restaurants, instead of a sandwich and fries, you get the sandwich and a donut. they thought that was so very funny. i love donuts, and free health care, socialism (i’m all about socialism–i’d essentially be a communist were it ever known to have worked properly in its true form)–it’s all good! thanks again for the input.
i have red hair and very fair skin. ten minutes in the sun and i’m a tomato person. i am a fanatic about putting on sunblock, esp. on my face. my sister, my TWIN, who has black hair and olive skin, looks gorgeous in the summer. people generally mistake her for a Latina. i am hoping that, in twenty years, i will have the last laugh with my wrinkle-free skin.
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Peaceofmymind: not high, just trying to rhyme again, but these stupid post areas won’t take returns so it all runs together. It also doesn’t help that the poet in question is no poet at all.
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Cinnamongirl: Amen. Ha. We will, in fact, have the last laugh. But will smell oddly like Coppertone.
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no talking amongst commenters allowed
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awwww dad, we were having fun!
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living in the south, everyone is expected to be tan. fair complexions are shameful. no matter how silly and vain it may seem to risk skin cancer for cosmetic purposes, and no matter how outside the box i like to think i think, i still wish i had a tan.
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funny!
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