Throwback Tush Day

Exactly.

I won't deny it.  I kinda love Throwback Thursday.  Give the SJG permission to slip-slide into the past, and I'm there.  Why live in the present?  That's my motto.  In recent weeks, I've posted photos of my younger self with dental difficulties and photos of myself heading off to school, and on Thursday, I guess I went too far.  I posted a photo of myself at my 40th birthday party.  I'm standing with my dad and in the background is a poster my parents had blown up in my honor -- it's me butt naked at the bathtub.  I was a baby at the time.  A baby!

Well, the "likes" of my backside poured in.  So many "likes," I felt so good about me, me, me and my baby butt and the fact that I still have pretty much the same tuchus today.  All those "likes" gave me a lift.   It takes so little to make the SJG happy.

And then, it pains me to tell you this, but tell you I must, I got a message from the powers-that-be, a notification, if you will, that shook me to the very core of my being.  It felt like a big brother-ish spanky-spank of disapproval:

"Someone reported your photo for containing nudity or pornography. Your photo was reported for violating our community standard on nudity and pornography.  We are investigating this matter further."

Yikes.  I had to read it a few times to make sure it wasn't a prank. There were questions to answer (or, in my case, ignore), but I did reply to this one: "Would you like to delete this photo?"  My answer: "The only thing I'd like to delete is the a-hole who reported this baby photo."

But so many of my cyber friends had "liked" it.  The reviews were in and they were 100 percent positive.  "Adorable."  "Cute butt."  "Nice tush."  The overall approval rating warmed my heart and confused my soul.  Not one baby butt hater in the bunch.  What gives?

This morning, I got the latest update, after an exhaustive investigation:

"... Since your photo doesn't violate our community standard on nudity and pornography, it was not removed."

Well, phew! Color me relieved.  Still, that's the last photo of my ass, baby or otherwise, I'm planning to post.  I've learned my lesson... to turn the other cheek.  Oh come on, you knew it was coming.