Sometime Last Century, No. 1

Sometimes when I’m feeling a little full of myself, I like to think back to the day I took Daniel to a mall to buy a baseball. He kept playing with it and putting it down and generally being a boy. I said, “Keep your hands on that baseball or you’ll go off and forget it.” 

Then I shrieked, “AIIIIIEEEEE,” grabbed his arm, and raced back to JC Penney, where I’d left my Canon AE-1 on the shelf in the bathroom stall. Fortunately, some kind soul had turned it in to the office.

Remember the days when you didn’t know your photos were crappy/blurry until you got your film developed? Then it was Sorry, sucker, you’ll never get that Kodak moment back. Digital cameras: the Ultimate Do-Over Machine.

 

8 thoughts on “Sometime Last Century, No. 1”

  1. ACK

    But, these days, my current Ultimate Do-Over Machine is randomly not responsive enough for the first attempt, never mind a trendy “disc” of 15 images each on a fixed-focus point-and-shoot.

  2. Your moment of realizing you’d done exactly what you warned the child in your care not to made me giggle.

    It’s also nice to know that I’m not the only one who makes that sound.

    1. Oh, those moments of clarity when we have to see our own flaws. I try to avoid those, but they keep rising up and smacking me in the back of the head.

    1. Re: Daniel’s hair style

      Blame it on the times! (I mean, not that I was even born then, because I’m now younger than Daniel, but whatever.)

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