Sunday, May 11, 2008

Unusual turn down

Not all of the people who reject the photos are nasty. Many of them are as sweet as they can be but they just aren't interested. It gets interesting when one person wants the photo and the other doesn't. There's this one house in the 'hood' that when we first stopped, there was a crew of men painting the house. Of course, no one was home. A few days later, we checked back and the house was done (it looked nice -- kind of a weak tangerine color with white accents) but still no one home. After two more visits, I finally caught the home owners at home. The woman answered the door and checked out the photo. She really liked it but noted that the house was now a different color. I agreed and offered her a discount ($30 off) since it was an old picture. She took it in for her husband to see and after a few minutes came back apologizing because he didn't want to buy it. I'm like, hey, no problem and started to go. But then she felt she had to elaborate. She told me that she'd been married twice before and that her husband didn't want the photo because it looked too much like the houses she'd had before with her other husbands. That's why he painted their house orange so it would look nothing like the others.

Too much information!

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