Ants

so... we're supposed to break our "antly" pattern. if I may.

I was walking through the mall with my Australian exchange student when I saw a photobooth. I thought. "wow... what a good way to break out of my ant pattern and talk to someone I would have never talked to.

the first person I asked was this older black man. he had this awesome walking stick and a pimp type hat on. he looked legit. so... I walked up to him and asked if he wanted to take some pictures with me in the photobooth. his answer was no. I was disappointed. but he went on to say that the reason he couldn't take a picture is because he would get vertigo from the flash. he said it was from when he used to fight. I asked him "oh... you boxed?" he said. "yes... I boxed in New York." he went on to say that he was the only man who defeated this one boxing champion. (I can't remember his name.) he also said that he was a lower division welterwieght champion in New York. He was really happy that I had asked him to be in the picture though. he said thank you young man. it was nice meeting you. I said back "hey. it was even more awesome to meet you. have a great day."

well... I still needed to get a picture with someone. so I asked this older asian woman... she just said "NOOOOOoooo..." and walked away fast.
then I asked this chubby man, and he just kept walking and didn't say anything.

so... I went up to this girl that was working at Wetzel's Pretzels, her name was Renee. I asked her if she wanted to be in the pictures with me. she was like... "umm... ok?"

we went into the photobooth. it asked us what kinda of layout we wanted. the option were ones like: Love, or bestfriends, or cool people, or western and crap like that. I said to her... "oooo... let's do the love one!" she didn't have any objections.

it took 5 pictures and each one I made her do different things. then after it took the pictures I said thankyou. have a nice night. she went back to work.

it took like 3 minutes to print. and it prented 2 copys so I gave her a copy and wrote on the back "never forget me." then signed my name.

over all it was kinda wierd. but it was really cool hearing the old black mans stories, and taking pictures with a random girl from Wetzel's Prestzels.