False Advertising
It’s no secret that I eavesdrop on BabyGirl’s conversations. Hell, this is my house and I pay the bills up in here! I don’t sneak around or anything, I just do it. But sometimes, I stop dead in my tracks over the things I hear, and wish I hadn’t. For example, BabyGirl had two friends over today and here’s a brief synopsis of their conversation:
Friend #1: Do you like my new contacts?
Friend #2: Yea, they’re HOT!
Friend #1: [turning to BabyGirl] So what do you think?
BabyGirl: I don’t like them. Why do you need to wear color contacts anyway?
Friend #1: Because I want to, that’s why!
BabyGirl: Well, I think you’re false advertising. Your eyes aren’t gray. They’re brown!
Friend #1 and #2: [in unison] False advertising?
BabyGirl: Yea, like when you meet a new guy. [single ma side note: is this the only example she could think of?] What if he says “I like your eyes, they’re beautiful.” What are you gonna say?
Friend #1: [giggling] I’d say thanks. What am I supposed to say?
BabyGirl: That’s what I mean, you’re false advertising! Making people think your eyes are gray when that’s not your natural eye color. You’re trying to look like somebody you’re not. It’s fake.
Friend #1: [getting mad] How is that any different than you wearing makeup.
BabyGirl: It’s not like I wear a full face of makeup. I only wear eyeshadow because I like to match the colors in my outfit.
Friend #1: It’s the same thing! Your eye lids aren’t naturally purple!
BabyGirl: And your eye balls aren’t naturally gray!
Friend #2: [out of the blue - to friend #1] Well, what about when you wear those butt pads?
*dead*
I snorted water through my nose!
Not only am I sitting here wondering why a 17 year old feels the need to wear butt pads, but my image of this little girl is forever changed. Completely tarnished! And as a result, I’ve decided that I’m done eavesdropping for the rest of this month week.
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I have to agree with BG on this one. Today butt pads. Tomorrow butt implants!
Oh my goodness if you could see me we’d be having fits of laughter, the kind you can’t speak for moments on end, together right now.
I look forward to the teen years. I know they keep a home full of spice.
Hi, I am back, did you miss me?
I thought I would be gone for few weeks, but all is well with my BG, so…..I decided to check you out today
Butt pads, so now not only people can wear chicken cutlest on their chest but on their butts as well?
Glad to know all is well with your BabyGirl. [-SM]
AH HAHAHA!!! that is really funny!
but…um. Do you know where she shops? I could use a bigger booty. There’s this girl in my dance class, and i’m SO jealous of her butt. it’s hard to make the moves look good when you’re flat everywhere. :)
thanks for sharing!
LOL @ sense being jealous of the boot-ay! [-SM]
… well it’s no different than padding your bra, like some have said :)
Padding your butt.. I could see that. I don’t have a butt, I’d look into getting me some butt pads
If anything, it’d be more comfortable sitting down than having to shift uncomfortably because I don’t HAVE any padding back there.
Grey contacts & butt pads! And I thought having acrylic nails and a bad highlight job were a bad thing in HS! Wow!
LMBO wowzers…you know my brothers say the same thing about false advertisement “they says its not fair, you think she looks good everything is right and then she takes of the padded bra, the fake eyelashes, the fake contacts the corset, the nails and the hair and what do you have left, clearly not the person you thought you had, is nothing real anymore? My brother would have a siezure if I told him now the butt isn’t even real…lol i will tell him just to see his reaction lmbo this is funny
I used to always listen to my teen’s conversations. However, sometimes I feel like all the intelligence has been sucked out of my brain afterward.
And I am wondering how you keep buttpads in place? I would think they would shift all over the place and looks pretty sad after an hour of walking, sitting and moving around.
I remember a friend of mine in high school talking about having butt pads (although I can’t recall what she called it) so they are nothing new… And this was almost 30 years ago.
I wore blue contacts in high school. My eyes were already blue, but they made them REALLY blue. I once had a guy say “You have the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen”. I didn’t know what to say, so I just blushed. But I did feel a bit of a fake.
I think it’s great that they are talking about how they present themselves and how much “alteration” is too much.
Lol at butt pads – wouldn’t you have to wear them every single day so no one would figure it out?
kids are so funny! i would have laughed too and yeah, you won’t be able to look at friend #1 ever the same. you might even look at her mom goofy, trying to figure out if her butt’s real, LOL!
Why oh why? I guess if I had a flat butt I could understand it! I don’t like contacts either.
LMAO
because this conversation is THE funniest thing I have heard in a long time.
I really needed a good laugh today.
Hilarious! I have an 11 yr old on the brink of entering middle school. On the first day of 6th grade, she told me her friend was mad at her. “Why?” “Well, M was wearing mascara and I told her that her eyes looked like they had spiders on them.” Guess the truth hurt :-)
Butt pads? Well, I’ve never even heard of those until now.
I have to say that I think padded bras are false advertising and ridiculous. And I know they’re not for guys because a guy that into boobs is going to dump the girl when he finds another girl with bigger boobs, so it’s definitely girls competing with one another.
I don’t know why I didn’t get my email feed for this post until today but it was perfect timing – HILARIOUS!
I wish I had the guts to wear butt pads. Lord knows I could use some help in that area LOL
I needed a good laugh this a.m. Thank you so much.
I know I’m late, but for some reason the subscriber just sent this to me. Anyway, I almost fell off my sofa when I read butt pads. LOLOL….ah crazy teens.
I’m trying to enjoy my two year old now because I am too scared about what her generation will be like in another 10 years.
BG is right. And nobody is out there thinking her eyelids are actually purple. That ain’t false advertising, that’s accessorizing.
ROFLMAO..Out of the mouthes of babes…
LMAO oh my gosh, i have tears in my eyes right now. I naturally have a somewhat bigger rear end, LOL oh how I wish they were pads and shopping for jeans would be easier.
Sistah Ant is right at accessorizing.
Babygirl is my new friend in my head. False advertising is priceless.
Wow that sounds pretty interesting. What else do you deal with?
I’m here by way of Aretha…Mann…I’ve talked about revisiting butt pads on my blog..damn that was funny! I remember my daddy saw my butt pads and I had to tell them what they were( he really had no clue) how embarrassing..and yeah I was about 17 I ordered them from Fredericks of Hollywood…I’ll never forget..wow I’m still laughing!
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In Korea, they sell and advertise them as a regular accessory. I distinctly remember an ad for pantyhose with built-in butt pads when I lived there. But then again, they also sold a lipstick brand called “easy-up” with Shannen Doherty as the spokeswoman. Subliminally scary.
This is the most hilarious thing ever! That was a well written episode.
Interesting!
Good information to learn.