Wal-Mart Photo Kiosks
I went to wal-mart a couple of nights ago to get some pictures from my digital camera developed. When I went there I soon found out that there were only two of those kodak photo kiosks and they were both taken. I was the only other one there so I decided to wait. I didn’t mean to be snoopy but after about 5 minutes, boredom kicked in. I started watching what they were doing and I noticed that the couple occupying the kiosk in front of me were being a bit indecisive. They were going through every single picture and argued about how they would crop it and how many copies of each photo they wanted. I peered over the shoulder of the lady using the other kiosk and she was also going through every individual picture. Except she was adding a border and caption to them as well. Shit, I thought. I hope they don’t have too many photos to go through.
5 minutes later I was browsing through some of the sample photos they had by the counter when another lady came in. She looked surprised and frustrated at the same time. She approached the counter where I was and asked an attendant if they had a certain time limit for people on the kiosks? The attendant shook his head and the lady noted how she had come in earlier to use the kiosks but they were occupied by the same people that were on there now. The attendant just shrugged his shoulders and the lady let out a sigh of frustration. Curiously, I asked her how long ago she had come in. 30 minutes ago, she said.
Damn. 30 fucking minutes to crop some goddamn photos? Knowing that I didn’t have the patience to continue waiting, I asked the attendant if he could just print the photos straight from my memory card. Nope. I then remembered someone telling me how they ordered prints online so I asked the attendant to explain that process to me. It seemed easy enough so I decided to go with that option.
I drove home, uploaded my photos to my computer, ordered the prints on the wal-mart website, waited an hour, drove back to the wal-mart to pick up the photos. And, what did I see when I returned? The same people, the arguing couple and the lady, still on the fucking kiosks still editting their fucking photos. I shit you not. An hour and a half later and they were still on the bloody kiosks. That’s just fucking rude and inconsiderate to take up all that time. God knows how long they took up in total.
The message of this rant, folks, is to give some consideration to others that may want to use the kiosks. If you plan on completely editing all of your fucking photos, do it at home.
Posted by Frank N. Stein
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No doubt! That would have definitely gotten under my skin too. People have lost the ability to think about others around them. This is the basis of ‘consideration’. CONSIDER the fact that you aren’t the only person on the planet earth - let alone a busy Walmart! Blog on!
That is nuts!!! I mean, that behaviour is so rude I am literally at a loss to imagine how people could possibly wait until they get to the kiosk to sort their shit out!
Is it so hard to do all this crap beforehand? Really?
Couldn’t agree more. Sort your shit out, people!!