Friday, December 6, 2013

Photo Struggles


Monday night The Boy helped our city's Youth Court welcome Santa and Mrs. Claus to our library to meet and greet the city's children and families.  This is a something Youth Court does every year--like Strawberry Days--so it is a tradition and a service.

The kids met at 4 PM to put together the little kids' goodie bags Santa will give them.  Then Santa arrived about 6 PM.  Usually families line up and the Youth Court kids are there to help keep some line-order going and to lift the spirits of the little people who "can't wait ANY more!"

I guess this year wasn't quite as busy as usual.  I'm not sure why, but there just weren't as many kids there--maybe because it was technically Thanksgiving weekend still.  But the Youth Court kids were bored, apparently.

I had texted The Boy and asked him to please have someone take a picture of him doing the Youth Court thing for Santa, as I never get picture of him with YC, as I'm not there with them like I was at school.  He laughed back at my text but sent me no picture.  I mockingly asked if I needed to come down there and do it myself.  He responded back with a text that they weren't doing anything, so what was he supposed to get a picture of anyway.

Finally I told him, via a text, that he just needs to take a "selfie" with Santa and whatever kids were there in the background.  Then he said he couldn't do that because his phone camera is only one-directional.  The next thing I knew, he was home and the whole Santa thing was over.

I showed him that he could take a "selfie" even if his camera was not reversible.  I even showed him how to do it.

(Not the greatest, I know, but I was only demonstrating the technique.  And the glasses are hideous.  Plus it was after 9PM and I was d-o-n-e after a day back at work after the holiday weekend.)

I even tried to get a snapshot of him while he poured and tried to drink his post-Santa-helping-Egg Nog, but that was pretty much futile too:




Anyhoo, The Boy mocked me and protested the whole idea of selfie-photos and I just decided to drop it.  I didn't want to cause contention--no photo is worth that--so I dropped it too.

But a little later, I heard him in the kitchen.  At the time I wondered what is up, but then got distracted and didn't go see until later.  This is what I found on MY phone's camera:




Do the words "Cheeky Monkey" comes to anyone else's mind here? 

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