Awkward moments define my life. Embarrassing moments are a daily occurrence. Here is the latest......
I work at J C Penney Portraits Studio as a photographer. I mostly take pictures of little tiny kids and babies, so I have to act like a dork a lot, its the only way to get them to smile. My ultimate trick is to quack like a duck for the kids, it gets the smile every time guaranteed! I quack A LOT in my job!!! Well today I had an older couple come in to get some pictures for their mission. As I got them in place and raised the camera pure instinct kicked in and I started making quacking noises at them to get them to smile. Um.... they are OLD! Like seventies old!! So I could have just asked them to smile. When I realized what I had just done I started laughing but they just didn't get the joke. I quickly explained that I work with too many kids all day, but I don't think they really knew what that meant. I tried to keep control but I was feeling pretty embarrassed for quacking at the seventy year olds, so needless to say that whole sitting was one big helping of awkward! I couldn't stop laughing, they couldn't see what was so funny or why I was quacking at them. I finally got through it though and got some pretty decent shots if I do say so myself! But honestly, I think that was one of the most painful sittings I have ever taken! And that includes the two year old triplets!! Not to mention I will be hearing about this one for a VERY long time from my co-workers!!! Sheesh!
