Dumb things I've done / Be careful what you do. You never know who's watching.

My family and I were at my parents’ home in North Dakota over the holidays without much to do one evening. My son Patrick (home from college) had invited his girlfriend along on the trip (she's a great kid). My mother offered to show some old movies that I had taken of Patrick when he was a baby. For lack of anything better to do and a chance to see my son embarrassed, I joined the crowd in the basement to watch 20 year old videotapes. They were all the usual proud parent baby videos that go on and on and on and on without any apparent end. I was pretty much snoozing through most of it (other than when jabbed by someone about looking goofy 20 years ago with longer hair, a mustache and shorter pants). The video included footage of a trip we took to San Diego when Patrick was about 7 months old. My wife took the baby back to the hotel at one point leaving me on the beach (with the video camera). Well, there on the 20-year old video tape that I had never watched before, was a bit of footage that I (apparently) took of two young ladies who were sunning themselves asleep on the beach (nothing indecent mind you).... I tried to argue that I was just testing the zoom capability on the new video camera but to no avail... I got nasty looks or worse from my mother, my wife and my son's girlfriend. I never saw it coming. How could a quiet evening looking at baby videos 20 years old go so wrong so fast? I did get a high-five from my son....