The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

16 June 2007

Shadows everywhere

I'm not much for tanning booths myself, but this I understand:

So anyway i went tanning on my lunch hour today ... trying to get some sort of color on my pasty white body. So i get back to work and think man i think i may have burned my back. Who knew that the areas you have NEVER let see the light of day would burn the worst!

Actually, I did, but you don't want to hear about how I found out.

I'm looking at my back in the mirror and notice as i bend just so ... i saw white ... well that's odd.. there should be SOME color everywhere now!!! then i raised my hands in the air ... and to my absolute HORROR ... under that little fatty area was a nice little white spot on both sides that never saw the kajilion watt bulbs.

I don't think there's a reliable recipe to make sure you brown evenly on all sides, unless you stay under the UV for hours at a time, in which case in less time than you'd think you'll wind up vaguely resembling your old high-school history teacher's cordovan-colored wing-tips, not my idea of a favorable result.

Posted at 5:05 PM to Birthday Suitable


What you really need is a human version of the rotisserie.

Posted by: sya at 9:11 PM on 16 June 2007

Now that's an idea, although I'm not volunteering to have the, um, axis of rotation inserted as a test.

Posted by: CGHill at 10:16 PM on 16 June 2007