Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Difficult customer fun ...
From: "Jeffery L. Smith" <jsmith@dcc.edu>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:10:29 -0500

Not too surprising. The men's basketball coach at my junior high school 
used to regularly cry when we lost a game. They are a sensitive lot.

Jeffery

At 10:20 AM 6/29/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>Get this. Yesterday, as I was shooting the last few teams at a club after 
>a 9 week stint, I handed over team and portrait prints to a female coach, 
>of an U14 girls team from the week before.  Nice young ladies, 
>mainly.  But with the first of the two team photos I took, the girl 
>standing next to the coach had poked her tongue out, sort of at the 
>coach.  The lab had printed 8 of each frame, so half of the girls would be 
>getting the pokey one, and half not.
>
>The coach headed off, then came back, having noticed the tongue, and 
>furious.   I said "I thought you'd be cross that only half the girls are 
>getting a copy of that one.  Those who've missed out will be upset."  That 
>really pissed her off!  She realised her bullying wasn't going to work, 
>started with a little tantrum, and then tried to rope a few other 
>customers in.  I asked her to see if the girl with the tongue wanted to 
>pay for a re-shoot.  That sent her ballistic.  Stormed off in a 
>huff.   Sheesh!  Get a life lady!
>
>Maybe it was handy I had just taken the monopod off my Nikon ...
>
>:-)  Rick.
>
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