April 1993
(I was 19yrs old)
In 1993 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were all the rage. So when I worked at Wendy's one of the Turtles paid a visit.
He posed with a couple of people I worked with.
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Did you guess?....
The person in the costume was me! Yes...kids came up and karate chopped me.
Yes, I dressed up as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. While working at Wendy's I also dressed up as Wendy and did birthday parties and Snow White for a weekend (when they re-released it into the theaters). I wish I had pictures of me in the Snow White costume. 
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20 Sweet Comments:
Oh how funny, I rememer doing a simlar thing and having kids trying to beat me up, not realising I was female!! x
Too funny Melanie!
I hope those Karate chops were absorbed by that padded suit. LOL!
TURTLE POWER! I love it. I worked at Sears when I was a Sr in high school...and in college...and I was shanghaied into dressing up as Winnie the Pooh. The costume was HOT...the fake head was torture...but the good thing was I was allowed to leave work 2 hours early but get my full schedule's pay because I was drenched in sweat when the whole "visit with Pooh" was done.
Okay, that is just too fun! How cute were you?! I bet that made going to work a bit more fun!
Wow you sure did a lot of different things growing up. Have a great day..
Oh great. That theme song will be in my head ALL day. ::sing:: Turtles in a half shell - Turtle Power.
You make a cute turtle. :)
Too funny!
You made a cute Ninja Turtle!!
That's hilarious! How fun that must of been though. Great pictures.
You are so cute it's not even funny!
love it my boys loved ninja turtles and I love that it is a girl in the getup and not a guy Radical
I love it! I remember the big Ninja Turtle craze! That is so fun that you got to dress up, I bet the kids loved it!
You are so sweet looking at that age, and now:)
I bet you were the perfect Snow White! Hugs, xoxo
LOL - loooove the early 90's bangs and the scrunchie! :D
Love it! :) I used to run around campus in the "Blood Hound" costume to promote blood drives & hand out lollipops... good times.
YESS!
I was a huge turtle fan. Which was kind of weird, since I'm a girl? I think it was all the time I spent hanging out with my cousin, haha.
I also was a turtles fan!
I loved TMNT!!! Ok, I still kinda do!
You were a good sport to dress up for all of that stuff! You probably brought a lot of smiles to a lot of little faces!
I love it! That is SO cool. I would have loved to dress like a character! I remember how huge those guys were! I was 16 then.
Oh you are so sweet.
And it is funny I saw this because like AlyGatr above I too did a stint as Winnie the Pooh. I was 16 and a woman I babysat for had sewn a big Winnie costume to wear to a party the year before.I had to wear a pillow in the front and one in the butt area. That year the families that I sat for got together and paid me to dress up and take the kids out.
I had a blast.
When my kids were little, we were going to the mall to trick or treat and I went to goodwill and bought navy pants and long sleeve shirt and a black belt. Because I had gotten a hat that looked like a cops hat at a yard sale. So I went to a toy store and got a set of handcuffs. And went as a "mall cop"
My friend I went with had sewn a Kermit costume for her son with a head you pulled on and it had ping pong balls for eyes. He got too hot so I wore his head and I was "Kermit the Cop".
One year I went to a halloween party for work and had on a whole clown costume and had to drive about 18 miles to the party. It was dusk when I left and I took the long way so I could drive through the city, I had a blast waving to people and watching kids go nuts in other cars when I stopped for red lights.
One of the best presents I ever gave to my daughter was a big box of dress ups I collected at thrift stores. She and her friends would stay busy for hours.
Thanks for the memories.
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