[at-l] sunburns' beleiveability

[sloetoe at yahoo.com (Sloetoe)]

### I too have a similar story, reading much like this one
(whose author's name I butchered off in the cut/paste), and can
*not* believe we're still milking this thread. There was nothing
in the origin of this thread that a reasonable person should
doubt.

"I have very, very fair skin.  In 1977, when I was in college, I
went to Ft Lauderdale to play baseball at a baseball camp.  It
was late June and I spent the first week in baseball pants and a
baseball shirt and only had my forearms and neck exposed so I
was ok.   On the weekend, I went to the beach and stayed there
from about 11AM to 2PM and then went back to camp.  By 4PM, the
skin had bubbled up on my shoulders and back.  By that night, my
chest, back, and legs were covered in 2nd degree blisters and I
was shivering and the tops of my feet and ankles were turning
black.  Its a long, ugly story but the bottom line is that even
though I grew up playing outside and was used to getting
sunburned, this episode was the scariest and the worst I've ever
been.
### I remember milking my weeping feet in order to get them in
my shoes, and shying away from windows and lit light bulbs
because they "hurt" the flesh on my head. Fun vacation. BTW, I
*had* put sunscreen on. At the time, I didn't know what "spf 15"
meant.

Sloetoe

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