Not Exactly A Kodak Moment

Today was Thanksgiving, and our store was one of the few places in our area that was open. The main grocery store and the convenience stores were closed, so it was just us and some pharmacies. Because of this, we were extremely busy with people who had forgotten stuff they needed.

At one point, we had a group of three teenagers and one older guy, maybe an uncle, come in and start awkwardly standing around the front registers. Teenagers almost always cause problems here, so rather than approaching, I made eye contact with one of them. She immediately turned away and started whispering to her friend. I assumed they didn’t need help and went back to working in my aisle.

A few minutes later, my manager was having a conversation with me, and the girl I’d made eye contact with came up to me.

Girl: *Yelling* “Excuse me! I need help getting my pictures off this!”

She held up a disposable camera.

Me: “Okay. I just need to find an envelope that you can fill out to send it for processing.”

I started digging around behind the counter, and I heard her telling her friends that she didn’t think I was right.

That’s when the guy she came in with told me they thought I was wrong.

Guy: “She says if you help her, she can connect the camera to her phone with Bluetooth and download the pictures onto her phone.”

Me: “There is no way to do such a thing. We usually mail disposable cameras out of state for film processing, and then the pictures are digitally sent back to us to print.”

Guy: “How long does that take?”

Me: “Usually a few weeks.”

Behind him, the girl started throwing a fit that it wouldn’t be done today and stomped off.

The funniest part of all this to me is the fact that they actually thought disposable cameras had Bluetooth.