>She’s Not Really Famous in Japan, Okay?
>Baby has been wearing a t-shirt that says Famous in Japan ever since we bought it for her in New York last year. Most people see it and giggle, like I did when I bought it.
“Is she really famous in Japan?” she asked eagerly.
At first, I thought she was kidding, and chuckled. But as she continued looking at me expectantly, I said, “Well, not yet. But we’re working on it.”
Several days later, I told my husband what had happened.
“That’s ridiculous!” he laughed. “Who would take that shirt seriously?!”
The next day, we were both at another soccer game. Coincidentally, Baby was wearing the shirt again.
“Famous in Japan…” One of our neighbors had a daughter on the competing team and had come to stand beside us. She looked from Baby, to me, confused.
Oh no.
“Uh, she’s not really famous in Japan,” I said. “It’s like, a joke.”
“Oh,” she said, unsmiling.
A few minutes later, a dad stopped and read her shirt. “Famous in Japan,” he said aloud, before shaking his head in bewilderment and walking on. Hubs and I looked at each other, dumbfounded.
Suburbia. This is how we roll.
>your little girl is so precious, she is a really appealing lass!
>Duh. Some people have no sense of humor.
>When the hell did everyone lose their sense of humor?Or maybe they never had one.Sometimes I think I’m too mean, but then I read something like this and I realize, yes, some people really are just stupid.
>See, you need to tell them that it is the Shirt that is famous – not Baby.Okay, yeah .. that’d just get you more odd looks, but it would make me laugh 🙂
>She is really cute. She should be famous in Japan.How could anyone not know that that is a joke?Maybe they are all too busy trying to keep up with each other in the Jimmy was reading at age 3 competitions that they don’t know a joke when they see one, they just panic because somehow they are behind again.
>I would probably last about 5 minutes living in Tennessee.
>Hilarious!!(And she’s a doll!)
>Famous in Japan……..because she was fluent in Japanese before she could walk…no no better…’American girls do really well on the Japanese Pageant circuit’
>See, if I’d seen that shirt, I would have started singing Big In Japan by Alphaville. And I would have laughed and asked where you got the shirt. So, where did you get the shirt?
>She’s such a peach!Now, you and I both know that life in suburban hell can complete suck the sense of humor out of you. That must be what is wrong with those people. Glad to see you still have yours–I’d have laughed at that shirt too!
>I can’t believe that really happened. Obviously I believe you, I just mean I can’t believe people don’t think before they speak! She’s adorable though!
>Got to love the dipshits of Suburbia.But she is cute.Not the dipshits. Baby. Just so we’re clear.
>Damn, she’s a cutie. Lookit the hair! She seriously would be famous in Japan.
>If it ain’t from Gymboree or Target or Baby GAP, the natives just don’t understand. 😉
>I like Lahdeedah’s idea.Tell them that she was fluent in Japanese when she was born, but that she forgot it all when you started to teach her English.That oughtta make their tiny heads explode.
>I saw one that said, “They love me in Germany”… man, I need that shirt… if only to see if I have the same dolts for neighbors.
>It makes you wonder if they take everything that literally, where did the humor go?
>This is great. I tell everyone I’m famous in Luxembourg. Perhaps I should stop.
>Oh god, honey – how can you stand it? I’d have bust a gut laughing. Next time someone asks – teach her a simple phrase in Japanese to recite back to them – something like:Konichiwa (Koh-NEE-cheewah)(I lived in Japan for several years). It means, essentially, hello. But I guarantee it will befuddle the hell out of ’em!
>I am so embarassed that I live in that suburbia with you. But you seem to be on a roll with fun T-shirts. What’s next?
>I am so embarassed that I live in that suburbia with you. But you seem to be on a roll with fun T-shirts. What’s next?
>Whoa, another reason to avoid other parents. Some people have no sense of humor. I’m dreading when my kids go off to real school!
>Dang. You may be too smart and funny for your neighborhood. It’s a funny shirt and I want one. Boo on party-poopers! ;^)
>I would have been tempted to sing “I think I’m turning Japanese”.I really think so.Damn, it’s in my head now.
>OMG! Stop writing and do a load of laundry, why don’t ya? (haha)Love it. Screw the laundry. A day without ‘Turmoil’ is a missed opportunity. That editor was a schmuck for turning you down the first time!
>There’s a band called Big In Japan. I don’t know if they are.
>Wow. Suburbia needs a boot to the head.
>Baby is so cute I just want to eat her up!
>Baby is gorgeous! I’m surprised you didn’t sign her up for the little pageant thingy! You definitely fit in. I’m kidding!!!
>Hee. I want that shirt. And I am totally not surprised that many of your fellow suburbanites do not get it. I can assure you almost no one in our neighborhood would. But hey, that’s OK, that’s what the internet’s for — bonding over cute t-shirts.
>Adorable picture! Now I’ve got the Alphaville song in my head.
>Man, that girl is cute.Thanks to a website I run, I’m known by a lot of people in the German-speaking countries. Do you think that would look good on a T-shirt?
>Well, she does look like she could be famous in Japan. She really is a precious babe!My son has a “I do all my own stunts” tshirt. I am thinking about buying it for him in all sizes so he never has to not wear it. Because he seriously does his own stunts. A lot. And that shirt gets a lot of looks and guffaws. I wish he had been wearing it when he ran into the Great Room at our church last week for our Wednesday night meal and he literally tripped on nothing on the floor, and landed, sprawled out. We could all start a rage … every toddler should have one, and then we could cause mass confusion. Wait? I thought it was that Ferrier chick’s kid who was famous in Japan? Is that not true?
>What a bunch of morons. Stepford anyone?
>Is she really famous in Japan? :0 hahahaha! No one has ever asked if I’m really Juicy…
>Now that’s funny. I don’t think these people are naturally stupid. Frankly, I think they’re working at it…
>Baby is so adorable. ‘Specially with her pigtails. Makes me wish I had a girl.Andrea (http://littlebalddoctors.wordpress.com)
>What a cutie-pie!(to some readers, perhaps in Suburbia: No, there is no actual pie involved in that comment.)
>Sounds like a sit-com in the making! Seriously, you guys could do a tv show… a reality show on life in suburban Nashville.Baby looks precious!!!
>Dh bought DD a t-shirt that read “It’s not easy being a Princess” which we all thought was really cute and she loved to wear the shirt…But then total strangers were coming up to her and saying things like “Oh Yeah, I bet it’s so rough!” And I’m thinking…”Can’t you take a joke? She’s 3 and you can tell she’s not really a princess!”So we retired the shirt and vowed to not get her any shirts with words on them again because people are getting too stupid and we don’t like strangers comeing to talk to us about what our clothes say.BTW: Baby is sooooo cute! 😀
>With a face like that, it not going to be long until she’s famous in Japan and everywhere else! Oh my GAWD!! What a beauty!!Have you ever thought of putting her in a pageant? 😉
>With a cutie face like that she should be famous everywhere.
>OH MAH GAH, she’s adorable! I’m completely eighth-grader-jealousy-laden of her long brown hair and dimples. I mean, my kid? She’s cute, right? Like stop me in public cute.But she sure ain’t famous in Japan. Nor does she have lovely long brown hair and a TWO dimples. To die for. (note to self: See if there’s a Canada version…)
>I want that shirt.. but for a boy! If you EVER see it please let me know! I want one for my son! Would need size for a 4 yr old!laurasnow@home.nl
>that’s kinda…well, scary.
>What a cutie! You have been running into some real doozies lately. Duh?! 😉
>She may not be famous in Japan, but she sure is a beauty in the USA!!
>Holy COW, she looks just like her momma!! CUUUUTE!!*pinches both your cheeks*
>AHAHAHAHAHA. Wow. That’s awesome……And P.S. she may just be famous in Japan. They are WAAAAAY ahead of the times there. You never know.
>she should be famous here – what a doll! But I can’t believe people take the shirt seriously.
>one more person saying “simply adorable!!”
>What a cutie!
>My friend’s son wears a shirt that says, “My Mom drinks because I cry.”It cracks me up, but she had to stop taking him out in public when he was wearing it. Man, the looks she got!