Passport to Old Age

In the mess and chaos that filled my office (before I moved into my new studio...more on that later) I seemed to have misplaced my passport. I've looked in every nook and cranny, all one hundred and thirty-one handbags I own, all paper stacks....EVERYWHERE.

I needed my passport as an I.D., it's not like I'm leaving the country to go to some far off island and have tan muscled gods feed me grapes as they fan me. No unfortunately that's not why I needed it.

So I did some quick research as to what I needed in order to get a brand new spankin passport ASAP....so the first thing was I needed to go and take a picture...you know the ones with that horrid white background that make you look all jaundice like.

So I headed to my convenient CVS and proceeded to go to the picture counter. I told the man that no I did not need digital prints for 15 cents printed in a few seconds...but that I was here for passport pictures. So he looked at me like this was going to interrupt his ever most fascinating day working at CVS. He broke out this digital camera (seemed it was like one of the very first ones that came out...like a 1.5mp) and then rolled down that horrid white bacground from it's trusty hiding spot in the ceiling.

CVS Picture Man: "O.K. Mees.....you stand there" (as he points) dude I went to college I know where I have to stand

But I was feeling good...I was thinking I'm going to have a smashing model like picture for my passport.....don't just stand there let's get to it, strike a pose there's nothing to it....VOGUE.

CLICK....

I knew that when he showed me that pic, I would be looking like this

(I did take off my furry hat, 'cause he said it was against U.S. passport picture guidelines to be wearing furry hats...go figure?)

so he flipped that camera over to show me the screen....and to my horror and disbelief my picture looked more like this:

I asked kindly, "Can we please do a second take?"

He did it...but his face told me he wanted me to take my old lady pictures and get out.

I knew that this time around, that trusty 5 dollar camera of theirs would most certainly make my pic look like this:

(I had to take my wings off as well!)

but what to my eyes did appear?

This again! So the man realized by my sream of horror that I was not happy...but he said "Sorry Mees. Can only take picture 2 times"

So as the tears flowed down my face...I paid the $8 to confirm the fact that I'm not a spring chicken anymore. I should've realized I was getting old, when I started to get arthritic like pains in my middle finger....hmmm....

So I walked out....and headed to another CVS store.

(Old lady pic stolen from collegecandy.com, Victoria Secret models pics stolen from the web:)