Every Single Time

Sunday, March 28, 2010
7:56 PM  ...

There's this thing we do on our tours, when we get to the end, where everyone gets to take a picture behind an anchor desk.  It's not that exciting and you have to pay like twenty dollars to actually get the picture in the end, but we have to have everyone do it, so we ask the group to break up into small groups of people that they came with, and then to file in, group by group, to take the picture.  And lately we've been having a lot of school groups, like groups from high schools around the country and stuff, because it's Spring Break season, so asking them to break into small groups always leads to a lot of drama because these girls don't want to be in a picture with those girls, and this guy shouldn't be in a picture with those guys because they're totally not friends etc etc, you know what I mean.

And always, always there is one lonely guy or two awkward looking girls who get stuck taking the picture alone, while everyone looks on.  And I try my best to be a distraction to the group or to make the lonely guy or the awkward girls feel a little better, but nothing I can say takes away the embarrassment of sitting there alone, squinting under the hot studio lights while everyone watches and snickers.  Because what I want to say is this: It's not always going to be like this.  It's going to get better.  Someday those guys laughing at you aren't going to matter at all.  It's going to be okay.

But I can't and it breaks my heart every single time.

Love,
Tara