PHOTOGRAPHIC PROOF

This Is Cool: 'MyParentsWereAwesome' on Tumblr

DIDN'T YOU KNOW?

Your parents were awesome before you were phat.

They used to be pimped out in fros', party hats, white tuxes, square sunglasses, team captain sweaters, formal gloves, polyester, mini-shorts and love beads. Mostly before you were born.

They drank, smoked, fell down, drove fast, played hard, lived, loved, frolicked, wore too much makeup, pumped iron, traveled, kissed, dressed in drag!

Then, as creeto commented on Fark, (where YPWA was provoking even more parental flashbacks), "Your parents' lives came to a screeching halt when they had you."

We predict this latest web project by self-described "visionary" Mirza (who's also "lazy," doesn't like dogs or vegetables and who spends "way too much time thinking") will be the next breakout website to go viral and have publishers twitching.

Go now! Submit a snap today! Maybe you'll meet the cutoff before it's once again verboten to see parents as humans.