wear sunscreen
because, seriously, this is ridiculous. this is the picture chip sent me last week while in LA on business. the story goes that he was "on a conference call laying by the pool and kind of fell asleep". (i know, nice job, right?).. when he woke up and made his way inside, he found he had turned a shade of red rarely seen in the natural world.
i lost all sympathy for him years ago, after about the 13th time he "accidentally" got burnt out of his gourd. but i'm putting his current truly sad state to good use (a stiff neck is now topping off the blisters and red, peeling skin); eve and ruth are more sure than ever about the importance of sunscreen. ruth has even taken to educating charlie about it. "it's so so easy and funny to spray it on. but not in your nose. and not just where your shorts are, 'cause then you look like daddy. like a lobster. or a really red crayon."
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edit: ruthie states she never said daddy looks like a lobster ('cause lobsters are black). she said he looks like a monster or "a blood guy". my mistake.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 12:35AM
Reader Comments (53)
i got a sunburn just like this one on my back when we were living in brooklyn! we went to a beach in new jersey for the day and i came home deliriously burned. there is nothing more painful and terrible than a bad burn, poor chip :(.
I can only relate this to the time my daughter called me from college in January ( I hope you never get such a call) telling me that she got FROSTBITE. Imagine...
Well, she decided to make it her mission to inform everyone about frostbite, even doing a speech on it in a class. Instead of hiding it, she tried to be "poster child!" and make sure noone she knew had the same experience. And, yes she owned some very cute boots.
Whoa, that's extreme! I like his attitude in the photo; I guess if your skin is a shade of red reserved for the Christmas season, you gotta have some 'tude. It's art baby!
That is the worst sunburn I've ever seen, and I've seen and experienced bad ones. Two words: aloe vera.
Whoa....
This looks like one of those magazine ads for sunscreen or vacations gone wrong. That's a colour I'd probably call Radioactive Red. I don't think he'll be running short of Vitamin D for a while but you might want to dose him with a zinc supplement for the next few days to boost his immune system so nothing greebly gets into the blisters... Whoa. As a person who's pigmentally challenged and virtually transparent, I hurt just looking at him.
Whoa.
I attack my husband with sunscreen anytime he will be outdoors. They are like children sometimes.
I know it must be painful, but this is a rad picure!!! CLASSIC!
armer armer chip. So you use the spray on your kids? Has it ever discolored their clothing? I think mine has but I am not sure. All the white summer Ts have a discoloration by the neck line.
YOUCH! Now I've had some bad ones in my day but that is RED! I bet sleeping is a real fun time for him right now :).
wow. that is crazy...owchie!
reminds me of my husband, whom i call my best sunblock in the world since we can only stay out 45 min. at a time at the beach or else the burn. we were in hawaii when we stayed out a tad longer and he burned that technicolor red. which was then proceeded by a back full of water blisters that all popped when a layer of skin sloughed off his back. delightful! (yeah... not really at all)
HOLY COW! That is the DEEPEST shade of red I have EVER seen on a human! :) At least it helps your girls get it :) I made my five year old cry this summer because I told him that when you burn your skin and it turns red like daddy's then it falls off. He started crying because he didn't want his dada to die! So I went over and showed him how the bishops wife's skin was peeling and she was still alive- but it HURTS when it's that bad- that's why you wear sunscreen. :) THANKS FOR SHARING!
That might be the best picture ever. Too bad about the pain factor-yicks!!
Ha!
I hope I get to see the after effects of this burn tomorrow.
Well, I feel like he finally got what he wished for, oh the many times I heard chip say "I just want to get burned out of my gourd". He's crazy!
the funny thing is, he just seems so proud.
Wow. Pinching the bridge of my nose and shaking my head. Chip! It's truly maddening! Wasn't it just last month, that you had a rediculous burn line on your neck from a eerily similar situation at our house!?
hahahaha! you and your family are adorable. :):):)
oh
my.
now that's a burn. seriously. ouch. i hurt for him.
Yowie! He really should see someone & get some silvadene cream, to prevent an infection in the burn. If it's blistering, it's bad & burns are high risk for infection. I feel bad for you Chip, that must be painful.
Yow! Luckily, I learned my lesson back in the late 80s. I don't tan, it's physically impossible, so I no longer even try. lol
OOOoooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh! Poor Chip!
hhhhhhhmmm, chip has my sympathy. I have been burnt on my shoulders to the point of having pea sized blisters covering my entire neck/shoulders. the pain was, well ridiculous. a week later I returned to work, still feeling a little worse for ware.
Oh and I agree with patria, I cant wait to see what you lot got up to in oregon.
By the way, love the pic, fantastic local.
Oh my God I would be so angry at him! That looks awful! Maybe he needs to look at some nice skin cancer pictures to see what his future holds if he doesn't cut the CRAP!
the real question is... what's he doing hanging out in an abandoned grocery store?