Two pictures that I took and tried to make funny.

I remember a time when you couldn't take a camera into a mall, store, or public restroom. This was not too long ago, if you're in high school now it probably wasn't even before your time. If you whipped out a camera in a public space and started snapping away in those hoary days of yore, chances were that someone wearing a blue dress shirt and combination cap in such a way as to suggest a sense of policelike authority would confront you and ask you to leave. I'm not sure what kind of state secrets they were trying to protect at the local K-Mart, but they were pretty rigorous about keeping foreign recording devices out.

These days almost everyone has a camera of some kind which they carry with them everywhere they go. And it's pretty easy to stroll into the mall and pop off a few shots, take 'em home and upload them to the web for all to see. But at the end of the day all you wind up with are some shots of the mall, which makes me wonder what the allure of Mall Photography was in the first place.

Anyway, what I'm getting to here is that on occasion I see something, usually packaging of some kind, that I think could elicit a laugh or two but there's no one around to share the joke with. I'll take a picture with the intent of showing it to friends later, but I'll promptly forget about it because...who in hell looks at cell phone pictures anyway...then come across them months later when I'm flipping through my memory card on an unrelated matter.

Anyway, long introduction aside, I was doing that very thing yesterday and came across these two images. Here they are with their respective captions: