Dude Where's Your Camera?
So went to an A's game today in Oakland and yeah, in one of the most logical yet retarded things I've ever done, I broke my camera on a foul ball. I had just got a beer and I was fucking around with my camera and snapping a picture to make sure it worked properly (I had to fix a small problem with it). As the ball was hit, my though process went something like this. Camera in one hand, beer in another, foul gets hit in the general direction I was in. Probablistically speaking it has a very, VERY small chance to get anywhere near me as I've been to almost 200 baseball games in my life and have NEVER had a foul ball come towards, or even within 25 people of, me.
So I stand up to watch it go and since I'm skeptically assuming the ball will get nowhere near me, I keep beer and camera in hand. As the ball sorta curves and I come to the realization that, damn, the ball is coming towards my general area. With minimal time to decide what to do, my options are....
1) Place down camera, therefore taking my eyes off of the ball, run the risk of possibly getting hit by ball since putting down the camera would take a while and then I'd have to somehow find the ball in the air again. You could alternatively replace "camera" with "beer" but both run same risk of me getting hit in the damn head.
2) Quickly drop the camera, possible breaking it in the fall (or if I was smart, try to have it land on Subrosa's backpack). Also risky as it runs the risk of breaking the camera but I'd have a good chance of catching the ball.
3) Try to move the fuck out of the way avoiding all damage. No ball catching but no damage. And since it will probably not comes towards me, I don't really miss that big of a chance to catch the ball.
I went with number 3. Unfortunately, the ball was red sox fan seeking ball and seriously went directly towards my chest. I couldn't lean forward or backwards or sideways to avoid it. In theory I could have ducked, but then I'd just be a pussy. As the ball came towards me, I thought to myself, just take it in the shoulder, you'll take damage but nothing else will be hurt. Unfortunately as it came within reach, my instincts said wtf are you doing try to catch it dammit, you can free up a finger or two with your camera hand.
Yeah one thing lead to another, 2 fingers can't catch a fast moving foul ball and camera can't take a lot of shock from a baseball. So bam, $170 camera, down the drain with under a year's worth of use
Granted. I used it a lot in that year...but damn.
So what should I do, get the same or similar camera which are now like $120 or go all out and get the good shit, the $400-$500 shit? I obviously know better now. When taking pictures at baseball game, take picture, put down camera ASAP.
The first and probably only foul ball to ever be hit directly at me, I have shit in my hands, don't catch the ball, AND destroy my camera.
Oh and to make things worse, after that I put my beer down to fuck with my camera to see if it could be revived and either I, unknowingly, or the kid next to me (he also did it later in the game, so I blame him) knocked over my fucking beer.
If only somehow a bird shat on me at the same time it would have completed everything.
Mood: Out of a lot of money and sad. No ball, no beer, and no camera
So went to an A's game today in Oakland and yeah, in one of the most logical yet retarded things I've ever done, I broke my camera on a foul ball. I had just got a beer and I was fucking around with my camera and snapping a picture to make sure it worked properly (I had to fix a small problem with it). As the ball was hit, my though process went something like this. Camera in one hand, beer in another, foul gets hit in the general direction I was in. Probablistically speaking it has a very, VERY small chance to get anywhere near me as I've been to almost 200 baseball games in my life and have NEVER had a foul ball come towards, or even within 25 people of, me.
So I stand up to watch it go and since I'm skeptically assuming the ball will get nowhere near me, I keep beer and camera in hand. As the ball sorta curves and I come to the realization that, damn, the ball is coming towards my general area. With minimal time to decide what to do, my options are....
1) Place down camera, therefore taking my eyes off of the ball, run the risk of possibly getting hit by ball since putting down the camera would take a while and then I'd have to somehow find the ball in the air again. You could alternatively replace "camera" with "beer" but both run same risk of me getting hit in the damn head.
2) Quickly drop the camera, possible breaking it in the fall (or if I was smart, try to have it land on Subrosa's backpack). Also risky as it runs the risk of breaking the camera but I'd have a good chance of catching the ball.
3) Try to move the fuck out of the way avoiding all damage. No ball catching but no damage. And since it will probably not comes towards me, I don't really miss that big of a chance to catch the ball.
I went with number 3. Unfortunately, the ball was red sox fan seeking ball and seriously went directly towards my chest. I couldn't lean forward or backwards or sideways to avoid it. In theory I could have ducked, but then I'd just be a pussy. As the ball came towards me, I thought to myself, just take it in the shoulder, you'll take damage but nothing else will be hurt. Unfortunately as it came within reach, my instincts said wtf are you doing try to catch it dammit, you can free up a finger or two with your camera hand.
Yeah one thing lead to another, 2 fingers can't catch a fast moving foul ball and camera can't take a lot of shock from a baseball. So bam, $170 camera, down the drain with under a year's worth of use
Granted. I used it a lot in that year...but damn.
So what should I do, get the same or similar camera which are now like $120 or go all out and get the good shit, the $400-$500 shit? I obviously know better now. When taking pictures at baseball game, take picture, put down camera ASAP.
The first and probably only foul ball to ever be hit directly at me, I have shit in my hands, don't catch the ball, AND destroy my camera.
Oh and to make things worse, after that I put my beer down to fuck with my camera to see if it could be revived and either I, unknowingly, or the kid next to me (he also did it later in the game, so I blame him) knocked over my fucking beer.
If only somehow a bird shat on me at the same time it would have completed everything.
Mood: Out of a lot of money and sad. No ball, no beer, and no camera
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coco:
subrosa told me this story yesterday. bummer man!
lilyk:
are you ready?!?!...