It always perplexes me when I think about the differences between man and woman. I mean, how can we coexist and ever have successful relationships with the extreme differences that are present?
I've heard of studies done about men only listening with 1/2 of their brain, where we woman listen with our whole brain. Not sure I really understood this particular study until this past weekend.
Disclaimer - For those guys, who may be reading this... I'm not writing this post to bitch about how much better woman are than men. God created us equally, right? (slight chuckle)
I just have to get this story out there, so I'll get on with it...
So, you'd think that by now I would have posted some pumpkin patch pictures to share. Well, I WOULD have and COULD have, if I had some. Which I did at one point...but not anymore. Let me explain...
Our family dolled ourselves up this past Saturday and headed to a wedding at Maclay gardens. I wore a long-sleeve black dress with some Kim-Kardashian-shoedazzle booties. They remind me of something that could be Chanel...but totally are NOT - Cute as heck, but hurt my feet. Wes wore the standard dark dress pants, and light blue collared button down shirt. He did look pretty handsome! For Will, we dressed him in the most adorable Janie and Jack slacks that had little embroidered mallard ducks all over, a crisp white button down collard shirt with a coordinating embroidered mallard duck tie (thanks Aunt Nunu!). We had a dark khaki blazer to top off his ensemble, but it was much too hot for the blazer. The kicker to Will's outfit was that he demanded to wear his sunglasses. So here is a two year old little boy, all dressed up in a tie while sporting some retro Tom Cruise Risky Business shades.
Anyway, we were looking good...
We got to Maclay, walked down to where the ceremony was taking place and found a nice seat in the very back row. We had a feeling Will wouldn't make it through the whole thing, so it was important we be able to remove him in case he started being loud and disruptive. So we sat down for the ceremony and busted out the camera to take some pictures of Will in his cute little get-up. As Wes tried to take a picture of Will in his adorable outfit we got the error message from our camera that our "CF card was full." This simply means that there is no more room on the card and pictures can not be taken.
The ceremony was just getting started, and the bridesmaids were making their way down the isle. I whispered (loud enough) to Wes, "you can delete all of the pictures except the pumpkin patch pictures." I then grabbed the camera from him, got to a good starting point, handed it back and said, "here, delete from here."
Well, I'm sure you can use your imagination to figure out what happened...but if this story is getting the best of you, I'll continue to explain.
Wes went to town deleting pictures. For a solid 3 minutes he was deleting picture after picture...and then it happened. I glanced over and watched him delete a pumpkin patch picture. WHAT THE HELL!
"What are you doing," I whispered loudly in panic.
"I'm deleting the pictures so we have room on the card," he whispered back and giving me a look like, I'm doing what you told me to do.
"I just saw you delete a pumpkin patch picture." I said, now whispering a little louder because I'm getting a little worked up.
"You told me to delete the pumpkin patch pictures," he says. "I just deleted them all."
Deep breathes, looks of disbelief and on the verge of tears, "NO, (you idiot) I told you NOT to delete the pumpkin patch pictures. I said delete everything BUT the pumpkin patch pictures." At this point I feel like people are looking at me and staring. I feel like the bride herself turned around from the alter and told me to "shut the F*$# up."
Wes laughs quietly, "I swear you said for me to delete just the pumpkin patch pictures."
"NO, I clearly told you NOT to delete them. I have every other picture downloaded from that card, expect the pumpkin patch. Do you not remember that I sent you emails with picture albums of ALL of those other pictures?"
Pause.
I continue, "and have you ever seen any of those pumpkin patch pictures before?"
I wait for his response...
"No," he says. Slight pause and then just to rub salt in the wounds he says, "I was wondering...I mean, there were some really cute pumpkin ones on here and I'd never seen any of these before."
"NO SHIT" I say, "that's because they have not been downloaded yet, and I guess now no one will ever seem them. AND, if you wondered, then why didn't you just ask, I am sitting RIGHT here next to you."
"Sorry," he utters, "I swear you said to delete just the pumpkin patch pictures."
I just look at him and shake my head, I mean, what can I do now? Rip the camera from his hands and beat him over the head with it until I feel better? I'd be lying if I said that thought didn't cross my mind.
Regardless, the pictures are gone, and now people around us probably hate us because we're the "happy" couple fighting over pumpkin patch pictures in the middle of a wedding ceremony.
Luckily, before I could put more thought into my plot to beat him with the camera, Will started talking loudly and asking questions in the middle of the ceremony. "Mama, what's her name?" "What's that noise?" "Dada, fix it." So, I quickly gathered him up and got the hell outta dodge.
Will and I walked around the reception area while the ceremony finished up. As mad as I was, and as disappointed as I was that my 2010 pumpkin patch pictures were never going to be seen by the light of day again, I had to get on with it and move on. Forgive and try to forget.
So I did, and we enjoyed the rest of our evening; sans pumpkin patch pictures.
Crazy camera lady,
EmJ
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