Me: I bought a plant last weekend and discovered there's a worm in it.
Coworker: [gasp] ew!
Me: But it's really cute.
Her: What?
Me: Yeah it's really cute, all tiny and fuzzy and crawly.
Her: ... you should get rid of it, it will kill your plant.
Me: That's OK.
Her: [laughs] So you actually bought a worm and are feeding it a plant.
Me: Yes exactly.
Her: [laughs]
Me: I mean, it's really small. It's like this [shows her about an inch and a half between fingers]
Her: That's big enough!
Me: But it's really nice because it won't leave the plant.
Her: Yeah where would it go?
Me: Well I've already named it.
Her: [Laughs] V------! I'm getting goosebumps.
Me: Yeah it's name is Ah Mo.
Her: Ah Mo. Are you afraid your cat will see it?
Me: He won't see it, but I'm afraid he will get jealous of it. Because I'm always looking at the plant now. He might get jealous of the plant.
Her: What kind of plant is it?
Me: I don't know. But doesn't matter, it was only HK$15.
Her: That's pretty cheap. The one on my desk was $20.
Me: Yeah.
Her: You should take a picture of it.
Me: Yeah but my camera gets fuzzy when I try to take close-ups.
Her: You're supposed to use the "flower" function.
Me: [dumbfounded] REALLY? THAT'S for close-ups?
Her: Yeah.
Me: I feel like an idiot, all this time I didn't know what the flower meant. I thought it was for outdoors or something.
Her: Well yeah it's for close-ups but they use the flower symbol because...
Me: Most people use it to photograph flowers.
Her: Yup.
I really feel like an idiot, because I have been frustrated about this FOREVER: why can't I take close-ups with any of my cameras? This is especially troubling because I went through 3.5 years of origami photographing without knowing about this function. How lame is that? Well I've been taking all kinda of pics now that I know about the flower function
And I can't keep plants alive except cacti, so my plant is almost dead. The flowers are really cool though, they have a wish bone-shaped membrame inside.
4 comments:
I like your blog so much! I'll write u an email later, to "update" you on how I've been.
That is really funny... on my camera the closeup function is called "Auction" and it's a picture of a teddy bear on a yellow background. I guess it helps when the picture is an actual "picture" and not a computerised symbol?
You sound like mom... I mean... the technologically inept part... hee.
haha leme chip in... i guess nerds like me always READ THE MANUAL when i get a new toy... it seems unnatural for ppl these days to keep the manual or the parts. i even bother to read my new ibm thinkpad manual when it basically said nothing.. yet i still learn a new trick - now i know how to turn on my reading lamp on all the many notebooks around (um... all ibms)
oooh one more - haha nice pics, and say hi to ah mo, i think he will turn into a butterfly!!!
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