She Was Walking Across Campus When She Got Screamed At For Ruining A Girl’s Graduation Photos
A 20-year-old girl currently attends college, lives on campus, and she also holds down a job on her campus at the local coffee shop.
She has a lot on her plate, and she’s always dashing between her dorm room, her classes, her job, and other places on campus.
Now that graduation is coming up, her campus has been filled with graduating seniors and their families snapping celebratory photos all over the place.
Initially, it wasn’t too packed and it was only a few families stopping along the biggest pathways to take their pictures, but as graduation looms closer and closer, people have started coming out in droves.
“I try my best to accommodate for them by staying out of frame as best as I can, but they’re everywhere and quite literally choose the busiest and major walkways to take these pictures as they tend to be pretty spots,” she explained.
One day, she had to wait at least 5 minutes to even walk into the building where her dorm room is located because someone held a photoshoot right in front of the door.
So there she stood, clutching a ton of bags, while she patiently waited for everything to wrap up so she could get to her room.
She’s been irritated by the fact that nearly everyone taking graduation photos thinks that she and everyone else around them need to stop, wait, and not go about their lives.
“I get it, you’ve worked hard to get your degree and I can’t imagine what you had to do and sacrifice to get where you are,” she said. “Congratulations. Genuinely.”
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She thinks it’s incredibly “selfish” when people taking photos get angry at those around them for not standing as still as a statue while they monopolize highly traveled parts of campus for the perfect backdrop.
A few days ago, she walked over to get some food in the dining hall before heading back to her dorm room with it.
As she headed back to her room, she made her way down one of the main routes through her college campus.
“There were 4 groups taking photos along it, and the group nearest to where I had to cross their photos, stopped and stared at me,” she continued.
“The girl who was graduating and getting her pics taken scoffed loudly and started yelling at me calling me names for being “so rude” and for not “at least waiting” for their active round of pics to stop.”
She looked at this girl before walking away. She didn’t appreciate being screamed at, but she couldn’t say or do anything to get this girl to calm down.
So, avoiding the situation seemed like the best option, but this girl only grew more irate as she kept going toward her dorm room.
The girl screamed at her even more loudly as she kept her back turned to her.
Looking back on everything now, she does feel bad for not saying sorry to this girl for ruining her graduation photos, but in that moment, she was not thrilled at this entitled girl’s behavior.
Finals are going on, everyone on campus is stressed, and the last thing she needed was to have a girl yell at her in public like that.
She doesn’t think it’s fair at all for this girl or anyone else to think she should hold her whole life up while photos get taken.
In order to avoid that particular photo shoot, she would have needed to walk 5 to 10 minutes up and around a hill, which would have been a waste of her time, and she really just wanted to be able to get back to her room.
“In a lot of these situations I try my best to get out of the way, but this was just silly to me,” she added.
She’s currently reflecting on this incident, as well as other photos she most likely ruined by walking past.
Do you think in the future she should stop and wait as patiently as possible for photos to wrap up, or do you think it’s unrealistic for the photo takers and their families to expect her to press pause while they wrap up what they’re doing?
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