CONTEST LOOKING BACK/LOOK FORWARD 2.18 MY TITLE: DO NOT EVER JUDGED A HOUSE WITH ITS LOOKS

Hello everybody,

Looking back forward in 1984, this happened to me and I felt sorry for how I judged people. Since it happened I promised to myself I will never ever judge a house with its looks.

Hubby just arrived from Brunei Darussalam,
at that time, he worked there for just 3 months. Happy upon his arrival, brought some cash, gadgets, kitchenware, and jewelry but, just short-lived. Two months passed by he was still jobless. With four growing kids, little by little, our savings gone, financially drained thus far has to sell some of our belongings like the gadgets and jewelries.

One day, a colleague of hubby called about a project, soil boring investigation. Project accomplished in a week, used his autofocus hand camera for the report but there were still extra films. So, hubby told me to shoot anything but we have many pictures already. Then, an idea came up.

I went to the shell craft shop of our neighbor who has several single young workers who were my friends. I told them my problem if they were willing to pose then pay only 5 pesos for 1 copy each after printing. They all agreed.

After developing the film I delivered my promised. Whoa, all of them were amazed because they were all gorgeous in their pictures. They praised our autofocus camera plus I directed them how to pose. In unison, they suggested to start my photography service. One girl invited me to her upcoming wedding and the other one invited on her birthday the following day. Wallah, I was an instant Photographer!

Word of mouth spread too fast, I shoot events, even dead person inside the casket, closing my one eye hurriedly clicked the shutter. Cold sweat on my first try. After shooting, hubby and I delivered the 3R size pictures with our bicycles as our transport service.

One family, the Sanchez Family, a big family with 7 children, who were living in a small tattered nipa hut by the riverbank was one of our clients. They posed and posed, many posed, consuming 2 rolls 36 shots each roll film.

That week, we consumed 6 rolls of kodak film. After printing hubby and I segregated the 216 pictures, both of us decided our route to deliver first who were living in big houses in a subdivision near us because for sure they have plenty of money to pay us right away, the Sanchez Family, the last one.

We followed our route delivered first to big houses, to our disappointment big beautiful houses did not pay instead told us be back on salary day. Some clients paid, then off we went to Sanchez Family. To our surprised, when our bicycles yet far from their nipa hut, the whole family were waving at us with big smiles. Upon our arrival at there rocky front lawn, all were too excited to view their pictures with the mother holding the envelope with the full payments of two rolls of films!

On our way home, hubby and I ashamed deep inside our hearts of our wrong expectation. Learned our lessons in life not to judge.

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