When you work in a business where parents come in to get pictures of their children taken, things can get ugly... All of these things were said in front of me and the kids that I was photographing.
"Why don't you smile? I can't believe this. This is why your father left!"
"Do you really want grandma to die seeing this as the last picture that you take for her? Do you? Smile pretty, not ugly!"
"Don't sit there smiling like some stinky, chinky Chinaman! Open your eyes, silly!" said this crazy white lady who said that as casual as day with a creepy smile on her face. It kinda was like I saw June Cleaver saying something like that. And I swear to God there was an Asian family right outside the door and the dad looked in at me when the lady said it and all I could do was mouth "I'm sorry!" Fucking white people.
This couple used to come in every year for Christmas pictures and they would bring in about four different outfits and put the kid and the photographer through hell to get these pictures. When the kid was about nine years old, they came in and the whole time they were sitting in the back of the studio making snide comments like, "Great, now let's see what happens when you actually try" and "Do you even want Santa to bring you anything?" The guy taking the pictures was trying to be really positive with the girl and tell her she was doing a good job, but eventually she couldn't take the pressure and she was standing in front of the camera smiling, but there were tears welling up in her eyes. The mom had actually gone out of her way to put makeup on this poor kid and when she finally broke down she had mascara running down her cheek. My associate and I felt so bad for this girl and in the midst of all this the dad gets up and storms out of the room yelling, "Well, that's it! You just fucking ruined Christmas!" And with that, the mom gets up and doesn't go to comfort her daughter, but runs after the dad saying, "Just get back in here! She will finish this session!" Meanwhile, leaving the kid with us. Awkward turtle.
"You will smile for these damn pictures!" Then hauls off and bends the three year old over her knee and spanks him as hard as she can. Yeah, that helped.
This hella ghetto lady busts in like three minutes before closing with a super cute little girl and says "We need to get some pictures now!" We are accommodating, so we took her in thinking maybe someone was leaving town and needed pictures or the child was going away for a long time or something like that. We start taking pictures and about five minutes into the session Loss Prevention from a nearby store comes in and says that they need to escort them to mall security. Turns out that the lady stole all of the kids' clothes right before they came in and wanted to get pictures in them. And of course she cursed up a storm on the way out in front of her six-year-old.
People are classy as fuck sometimes.
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