You've Got to Be Kidding...It's Only Tuesday?

Even though I've already called/emailed many of my friends to tell them about my day, it was so insane, I really have to share it with the world.

I work at a photography studio- it's always a crazy place, especially this time of year, but today was... unusual.

1. Realtor comes in and has her picture taken. Most want to get their image on CD because they're going to email the picture to business card places anyway. This Realtor DOES NOT want a digital file, she wants a paper portrait. Later she calls me up and wants me to email her 4x5 to her... the paper 4x5. I can't believe she's that dumb, so I say, "Wait, do you want a digital file, a paper portrait or both?" She replies, "Yes, I want you to email me the paper portrait."

2. A mom comes in to order her son's senior pictures, furious about the quality of the proofs. (We print our proofs at a lower quality to discourage scanning and copying.) I explain this to her at great length, show her how beautiful the final portraits will look, but she still doesn't get it. So she does her order anyway, then points to a proof she has ordered from and shows me that it was accidentally scratched. She asks, "Will this show up in the portraits?" I ask, "The scratch on your proof??" She says (as if I were an idiot), "Yeah, the scratch."

3. A client calls me and asks if she can give me her order over the phone. She's already been in to see her proofs twice, so I tell her I'll do it only if she has a simple order with no special retouch requests, and will not be able to come to the studio anytime in the near future. She says her order is very simple and she won't be in town anytime soon. Thirty minutes later, as she's describing a TREE in the background that she wants me to change, I tell her that I'd feel better if she just came in to the studio. I ask when she'll be in town next. She says "Oh, I'm getting a pedicure at 11:00..... so how about tomorrow around 2:00?"

I think they were all flooded out of the bomb shelter they've been hiding in since the Cuban Missile Crisis.