School Photos

I enjoyed school, I really did. One of the events I always looked forward to was having our yearly photos taken. Since this is an important moment in a child's life, and maybe the only photo of them taken during that year, you would think the photographer might tell the students when they weren't look quite right. Maybe the hair is a little messy, or a ribbon is not on straight. This never happens, though, as evidenced by the photo taken of me when I was about six or seven. When I brought the proofs home, my mother looked at the photographs, and then looked up at me crying. She calmly said, "Perhaps we should only get the minimum this year." You have to love a mother who would purchase the photos even when they are so bad.