The morning of my party I got up expecting her to produce the prettiest princess gown I'd ever seen. That's not what I got though. You can imagine I was absolutely horrified when she began dressing me as a table. I was 5! What was I gonna do? She made the table out of cardboard with a hole in the center that my head went through. The table then rested on my shoulders. On that cardboard she had a white tablecloth, paper plates, cups, napkins and plastic ware glued onto it like place settings. Then I had to wear a stupid hat with fruit on top as if my head was the center piece. My mom thought it was the best costume ever and kept saying how cute I was. No I wasn't cute. I was weird.
I couldn't even get through the door at school. The worst part was my costume was so intrusive on everyone else no one could sit by me and some boy kept trying to set his cup of juice on me. It stands out as one of the most embarrassing moments of my life that I will never forget. I'm not angry about it. It makes me laugh now, but I swore I would never do that to one of my kids.
