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[wickedflea]

I always fuck up when I try to take pictures of people around town. Like when I tried to get those two guys on the bus, I accidentally left the flash on and ended up attracting disapproving stares from everyone on the bus. Another time in downtown Drew, MS, I got threatened when I tried to take pictures of some guys hanging around outside a juke joint. Today as I was stopped in traffic on Dixwell Avenue I happened to have my camera out, so I zoomed in on a woman walking down the street--more because I just wanted to see if I could get a decent shot of her than because I thought it was going to be an awesome picture or anything. And sure enough, before I could snap the picture, she zipped her head around and started cursing me out like crazy. She even shook her fist at me! So there I was with a FANTASTIC shot right there in front of me, with the woman's gold tooth flashing and underarm hair billowing, and I got so nervous that I missed her entirely and got this guy instead.



The funniest part about the incident is that I had Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind blaring at top volume, so I really couldn't even hear what she was yelling at me. (Going only on my lip-reading skills, I'm pretty sure it involved the word "motherfucker," though.) So I was sitting there yelling back, "Pardon me?" What kind of badass am I? Nobody says "pardon me" when someone's cussing them out. That's senseless.

I should have decked her ass with a tennis ball, but I was fresh out.