Get with the times, lady

[prjkt]

This has been my day.

Almost literally.

I work in a camera retailer that does photo printing.

It seemed like the local nursing home had a mass escape.

I was surrounded by what we call the zombie waftocalypse, brainless wilfully ignorant people who chose to not wear their hearing aids or glasses, and try to make that my problem. Nope.

"Use you fingernail on the kiosk"
*mashes fingertip*
"IT'S NOT WORKING!"
"What did I just tell you?"

"Can you come around here and show me closer"
wishing I could say the following,"No, this is close enough. The malodours stench of cigarette ash, rotten food and unwashed old man is already making me choke from here, not getting any closer."

"Do you sell the old-fashioned cameras, the simply ones with the fillum? You can tell I'm 90 from this question"
This one I was ok with, she'd had her old digital camera (and a bunch of other stuff) stolen from her, so I sold her a disposable camera and told her to bring it back to be processed.

"What do you mean it takes 2 weeks to process film!? I used to be able to get it done in an hour?!"
"Yes, ten years ago, now it's all sent off-site once a week on a Monday, so you've missed today's cut off"


and that was just before lunch....

[Trixie]

But on the flip side of this, I love when older people come up and they know exactly what they want and what to do. I always get a kick of when one of them explains how to do something to someone younger.

Talking about people and their sad lives, had a lady the other day on the phone who kept asking me if our Starbucks rep came in today because one of the managers said they would. I didn't know because it's not my job to know. She kept going on. I finally got her off the phone but she came in maybe an hour later. She got really snotty with the manager because we didn't have a certain flavor of Starbucks coffee. Then proceed to tell us that another flavor doesn't sell so why do we carry it. Lady, they all sell.

[XCashier]

brainless wilfully ignorant people who chose to not wear their hearing aids or glasses, and try to make that my problem. Nope.

That always drives me nuts! I've worn glasses since I was eight, and can't see past the end of my nose without them. I don't even want to think what might happen if I ever "forgot" my glasses. And these vain old bats don't want to wear their glasses because they "don't want to look old!"

1. Yeah, I'm sure I totally looked like Methuselah at eight years old.
2. All that squinting you're doing to see without your glasses will give you some pretty severe crows-feet, which will make you look a hell of a lot older than your glasses will!

[Crai]

That always drives me nuts! I've worn glasses since I was eight, and can't see past the end of my nose without them. I don't even want to think what might happen if I ever "forgot" my glasses. And these vain old bats don't want to wear their glasses because they "don't want to look old!"

And I bet they drive with out them too.... egads.

[siskaren]

And I bet they drive with out them too.... egads.

I need glasses to read (although I just wear readers from the drugstore), but I don't need them to drive - road signs are much bigger.

[earl colby pottinger]

You are never too old

We use to get a guy who would come into the computer to buy parts and ask advice on expanding his computer system.

This guy had all sorts of add-ons and sometimes had to hunt down special software to get it all going, he was over 80 years old and having fun.

Every time I think of him I want to beat the people over their heads when the claim they are too old to learn computers/electronics andthey are barely past 50 years of age.

In-fact I got angry at my Mom who claimed she could not get the new DVD player to work because she was too old and thus did not know which button was the "PLAY", I in anger grab up the old remote and showed her it was the same symbol on both remotes, then I grab up her tape record and it had the same symbol for the play function, then I pointed to the stereo again the same symbol then I pointed out the record player and again the same symbol was on the play button.

This meant for the last forty plus years of her life she had been pressing the same symbol to start media playing but she had tried "I am too old to learn new stuff", that is not being old, that is being lazy and unobservant.

[Seshat]

Digital zoom can GDIAF as far as I'm concerned.

If I want digital zoom I'll do it in my art program/photo processing program. Give me the highest quality source material I can get, please. Optical zoomy zoom zoom.

[dalesys]

... Optical zoomy zoom zoom.

I want *fit*bits, not *fat*bits. Y'all gimme 100 pushups!

[EricKei]

My first digital camera was a 2.1 Megapixel and came with a 32 MB memory card. Yes, that's mega not giga.

Same here!

Did you shoot prints or slides? Also, did it take electrically-fired flashcubes or percussion-fired (Magicubes)?

Slides on vacation, prints otherwise. Magicubes.

I still have the better part of a magazine storage box full of old vacation & family picture slides and negatives to scan in. I have one of those USB devices that can read both. It's just tedious.

I've worn glasses since I was eight, and can't see past the end of my nose without them.

Since 6th grade here, despite the fact that I was one of those little kids that sat three feet away from the TV because I couldn't see it otherwise. Our family eye doctor, despite supposedly being very, very good, somehow missed this entirely, AND she missed my brother's lazy eye until it was to late to efficiently correct (she didn't catch it until he was in elementary school; it's harder to correct if you don't start fixing it before age 3 or so).

Give me the highest quality source material I can get, please. Optical zoomy zoom zoom.

Precisely! ^_^ In more ways than one.

[MadMike]

I still have the better part of a magazine storage box full of old vacation & family picture slides and negatives to scan in. I have one of those USB devices that can read both. It's just tedious.

Tell me about it. I have a box full of film pictures going back 30 years or so, and a few pictures even older than that. I spent the better part of a year scanning all those into my computer. And I subscribe to a backup service, because I don't want to lose everything.