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May Contest Image
Try your hand at coming up with a winning caption!
Girls Behaving Badly
I recently heard from a brand new fan.
Jackie became a fan when her mother brought home a magnet they both thought was perfect for Jackie’s best friend, and now Jackie wants to decorate her dorm room at Yale with all things Anne Taintor! “So” I asked Jackie “what was the magnet?” I was delighted with her choice!
I first heard “poor choices” used in this context by a good friend (who shall remain nameless), the mother of three teenagers. I love “poor choices”!!! It is my understanding that it covers pretty much anything from ordering a coke and French fries for lunch to sneaking out at two in the morning on a sub-zero night to go drinking with boys. Such a useful euphemism! I wish we had had it when my daughter was a teenager.
I’m certain none of you have ever made any truly poor choices, but I’ll bet you know someone who has. Maybe she/he skipped the nutritious breakfasts Mom so lovingly prepared? Stayed out past curfew on purpose? Hotwired Dad’s car and drove it to Mexico? Smuggled Quaaludes from Barbados?
All dressed up and nowhere to go… except the kitchen
I’ve been wondering for years what could be so enthralling to these two ladies. A ham’s a ham, right? Hah! That’s where you’re wrong!
Carmen Askew, winner of our April caption contest, figured out once and for all what the culinary excitement is really about:
I laugh every time I look at this! Thank you, Carmen!
Before I go on to list the honorable mentions, I’d like to explain how I choose a winner. At the end of the month I go through all the captions, checking off a dozen or so that I especially like. I wait a few hours (thanks to my rapid mood swings, something that wasn’t especially funny two hours ago might be hilarious now). Then I go through the captions a third time, choose my absolute favorite… and I few more that were really, really hard to eliminate. Only then do I look at the names of the brilliant writers.
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