Summer is here. Can't you tell?

Now I realize that I may be whiter than Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, and in the sunny summer months I change colors like most people. Only difference is I turn from translucent to just pale - with a bit of pink.

And the media likes to tell people that a bit of sun, a bit of color is good for you. And I agree. They say it makes you look healthy. Again, I agree. But then there are some who take it a little too far.

Apparently they can't wait for the sun's UV rays to react with the melanin in their skin, so they do in themselves with tan in a can. And yet, with so many advances in the self tan industry, one would think that this (see pic above) could be avoided.

Unfortunately for these poor souls, this is a pic that will stay with them for the rest of their orange lives.

Yes, spend some time in the sun, use sunblock/sun screen, get some color. But for the love of God Almighty, don't let that color be orange.

I'm off to the tanning beds.