I was born the middle child, so naturally, I'm prone to have some redheaded stepchild issues with…read moremy family...I'm always the last to be told everything, always pushed to the sidelines so that my older and younger siblings can shine, people "forgetting" to invite me to things, etc, etc.
With that said, it's safe to say that I really don't need these issues to rear it's ugly head in my non-family life too...but alas, Foto Cabina was able to do just that - exploiting my insecurities...
I recently went to a friend's wedding, where Foto Cabina was providing their photobooth services. Since this wedding was practically a mini high school reunion, we all were buzzing around that booth, trying to get as many little photo momentos as we could. We swarmed the booth and raided their props area like the FBI on that Megaupload dude's house!
My middle child insecurities began to flare up when I was invited to take a group pic with 3 other friends and one of their babies. I was super excited when asked to join the pic bcs when you're the forgotten middle child, being invited to something or to be remembered at all just means that much more to you than it probably would to the average person. We all got fancied up with the props provided and hopped into the booth, taking some pretty darn precious pics...or so we thought!
When we came out of the booth, and they handed us the pics, we all had our best WTF faces on. Inside the booth, the monitor showed us all fitting into frame perfectly. However, when we got the pics, it looked as though I was never in the booth to begin with! Some friends on the opposite side of the pics were also cut off completely.
Correct me if I'm mistaken but shouldn't the photo display show you what the picture will look like and not a before pic of what your pic looked like before they decided to chop you out of the pic? If we had known some ppl were going to be cut off, we would've tried harder to squeeze in the frame (if that were even possible) and have everyone sitting tighter on each other's laps.
After a few more pics with other friends, it was clear that 10 people fitting into the booth was quite the exaggeration, unless by people, they meant VS models or little Vietnamese coffee shop girls. The biggest group of clowns we managed to shove into that clown car was 6, and even then, not everyone was able to get into the pic :(
They say their booths are the widest in the industry and allows up to 10 people, but it's one thing to be able to fit a bunch of people in a booth, and it's another to actually be able to capture all those ppl in the pic.
With that said, I was brought to a sad and depressing place by this booth. These pics are supposed to bring joy to the guest, but all this did was bring up some deep rooted insecurities for me. I've already been cut out of enough things in my life...I don't need to be cut out of group photos too!
Note to potential renters of Foto Cabina booths, make sure you have them instruct your guests on the best places to look and stand before taking a photo. Otherwise, you'll have some disgruntled guest like me when they find out they were cut out of the cute group pic you guys all took together :(
**Seriously, I wasn't THAT depressed...but come on! I have quite a cute mug, so who wouldn't be upset that I was cut out of their pic? ;p **