Two lessons learned!

So here’s another story about the park outing…

As I got onto the bridge, getting distracted by trying to find a good frame, 3 girls (pre-teens) came up to me and wanted me to take their photos with my camera. None of them were wearing a facemask. I wasn’t thinking of COVID because my mind was thinking which setting I should use for portraits. I took some photos for them, then one girl asked to take photos of her friends by herself. Again I was NOT thinking and I gave her the camera. It then got passed to another girl’s hand, and by then two more older kids (boys) showed up. Now my alarm was raised, "What if they just run away with my camera?" I turned around and saw Hubby standing a few feet directly behind the girl who’s holding the camera, sort of blocking her exit if she decided to run. I also inched closer to her just in case she would run away with it.

It ended well, she gave it back to me, then they lost interest and ran away.

It then dawned on me that not only I risked losing my camera, I allowed myself to be surrounded by 5 kids without facemasks!!! I had totally forgotten about the COVID threat because my mind was so preoccupied by taking photos.

The first thing I got home was to disinfect the camera and wash my face thoroughly.

Never again!

PS: As with their photos, I did ask one of them for her email address but she didn’t have one. I then suggested she leave me with her cell phone number so that I could text her for her mom’s later. She said "okay" but then they just left. Hubby said they were more into being photographed and had no interest in having the photos.

PPS: No, I have no intention to share any children’s photos on social media, strangers or no strangers. In fact I already deleted their photos.

Posted by . ƃuƎ ⍟ Ԁ ◞hēll໐ ຟ໐rl໓ on 2021-02-04 18:09:30

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