Sometimes, things sadly don’t turn out the way we want them to, or, as one Oregon woman found, birthday photos aren’t developed the way they were paid to be. “I want to cry and feel stupid for trusting the camera,” she groans, posting the developed results on r/Wellthatsucks. She claims that she bought the camera to use just for her 30th birthday, and they were supposed to be developed within a few days by FUJIFILM through Walgreens. However, the Walgreens employees held the finished photos for two weeks and were too lazy or incompetent to let her know until after she called them multiple times.
As for the photos, they look like something out of a ’90s indie horror movie. The majority of them were poorly developed and looked simply awful, with discoloring and blurry imagery. “There were three random pictures that were okay, but they were all taken in the same lighting as the others, so it wasn’t a user error, :(” she states, implying that it was really not her fault. Still, many Reddit users point out that the Oregon woman shouldn’t have trusted Walgreens to have her birthday photos developed, even if it was just the middleman.
Apparently, “The store manager gave me the tracking number for when it should arrive instead of checking herself. That is how I know it has been there for almost two weeks,” the woman explained, distraught by both the results and how long it took to get them. Someone suggested she try taking the negatives and having them reprinted. Unfortunately, Walgreens was of little help: “They didn’t give me the negatives, :(” she replied. “The bag said ‘We do NOT return negatives’.”
On the bright side, some commenters say that her photos are actually aesthetically pleasing to an extent; in other words, they look pretty “rad,” in the sense that she and her friends were under radiation when they took the pictures. “Who throws a birthday party at the Chernobyl reactor??” jokingly questioned one Redditor. “OP can have a little ionizing radiation, as a treat,” laughed a second. “I kinda dig em,” praised a third. “Looks like a prop from a horror/thriller.”
In the end, the photos really made the Oregon woman’s 30th birthday memorable, but maybe not in the way she had hoped.
