Developing A Wild Theory

In the 1990’s, I owned a One Hour Photo Lab. I had a customer hand me a roll of 35mm film, which I accidentally dropped while attempting to place in the order envelope.  

It seems she was attempting to capture her son’s sporting event and had the shutter speed all wrong. Every picture in the roll was blurred. Upon returning and looking through the images:

Customer: *Angry.* “All the pictures are blurry, and it’s all your fault!”

Me: “I just developed the pictures, ma’am. I can only develop the pictures you took.”

Customer: “My pictures were fine until you dropped the roll of film!”

Me: “I can say with absolute certainty that was not what caused the images to be blurry, ma’am.”

Customer: *Mockingly.* “You know that with absolute certainty, do you?!”

Me: “Yes, because when a fully shot roll of 35mm film impacts a hard surface, all the tiny people inside do not get thrown around, causing the pictures to come out blurry.”

Sadly, laughing at her uncontrollably was not an option.