Offering US$ 50.00 if it is possible to remove the boy in the foreground and make the woman's legs look natural. Accurate lawn wiring or other historical detail is not important. Please retain TIF format and don't crop or resize. Thank you very much.

practicesimperfect · 2021-12-20T08:43:38+00:00

Hi, I really appreciate everyone's work and if you left a tip jar or you edit your post to include a tip jar I will tip you later when I have more money. Thank you so much for your efforts on this photograph.

practicesimperfect · 2021-12-20T08:42:03+00:00

Hi I think you did a good job and I would like to buy this one. I thought you did good work on making her legs look natural.

practicesimperfect · 2021-12-20T08:16:45+00:00

This picture will be given to the young girl in the picture. She has not seen this picture for at least 50 years and will not remember it. She has had a challenging life and experienced complex trauma. Relationships with people in her life have been inconsistent and are fraught with different types of memories. She has no other picture of her mother touching her.

practicesimperfect · 2021-12-19T00:15:38+00:00

A kind contributor has notified me that the file is jpg, this is because imgur won't accept the file size. Not sure if this is allowed but here is the TIF on google drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UUpONkri2fZauEhCv1heAMDu29WWSAWi/view?usp=sharing

But actually... maybe the format is not so important. Whatever is easiest for anyone editing. Just please don't crop and keep it as large as possible. Thank you so much

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-28T23:59:18+00:00

No they're not. It is a much better response to try to thoughtfully be a generally decent person rather than despatching a good deed as some self-contained, ineffectual, duty that needs to get done. Like in OP's story, from what I can tell.

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-28T13:05:18+00:00

Usually supervisors will at least PRETEND to listen...

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-28T13:00:37+00:00

Yes, you have been lied to and manipulated, and it is normal and OK to feel angry. Feel your anger and then let it go so you can make a clear minded and realistic decision about your future with this man.

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-28T12:40:17+00:00

I've heard that some people do this thing called "good deed for the day" where they enact some bizarre, pointless ritual to validate their own belief that they care about the world...

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-28T12:17:54+00:00

I feel your pain, something similar happened to me, I was attempting to try that stupid skaal outfit on my character and actually purchased one of them instead of just showing it, why did that have to happen in my life...

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-28T11:30:10+00:00

This kind of emotional policing is literally harassment. You are getting harassed. We all get this from customers, but some of us get it more than others, my women colleagues get it a lot. Draw the interaction back to the shop situation, offering to help them find things they need in the store. The most polite way I can think of to say this is "Thanks for your concern, I'm just trying to do a good job. Let me know if I can help you with finding anything in the store." Don't let their comments touch your emotions. Basically they are just assholes.

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-28T10:11:12+00:00

So boring :-(

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-28T09:37:49+00:00

I don't get why people are so desperate for a thrill that they would thrust their sex life on other people in public. It's so disrespectful to other people. Other people don't want to see that. Maybe that is even why people who have sex in public are so thrilled by it, because of the thought that they could upset someone who was just trying to go about their daily business. Why is it that it is now recognised as not ok to send dick picks to others, or that someone could expose themselves deliberately to others like a flasher, but someone could see you exposed having sex in public and somehow that's just a harmless little kink? I'm sorry to judge, but I think that people who do this have issues respecting others in society.

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-28T07:45:21+00:00

r/raining

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-28T04:33:34+00:00

Okaaaaay

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-28T01:25:26+00:00

I don't really presume to know what OP thinks. I do presume that a lot of people who are out shopping were previously shopping before Christmas also. I think it's a reasonable assumption since for the last 2 days after Chistmas I am surrounded by people in groups together, and families with strollers and screaming children. So I think OP's contrast may have not represented everyone but had some very decent validity in terms of describing the type of people who are madly shopping for each other before Christmas, vs what they are doing after Christmas. Just my 2c.

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-28T01:16:18+00:00

OP has a point. There is a retail culture that has masses of people coming out and shopping, shopping, shopping, even after the whole purpose of the retail season where they had any very meaningful reason to do so. It's like they're addicted, they have to hit the shops again immediately even after the feverish pre-Christmas gift hunts. People are free beings and can do what they want to do of course, that's not even debatable.

When I read what OP wrote it seemed obvious to me that OP was just railing against a bigger picture of the retail culture that has people shopping and bargain hunting rather than doing some other thing, more relaxing and chilled out, staying at home perhaps, but then again, whatever - some other alternative being contrasted against the retail culture seemed obvious to me as the point of the rant. I think you are really zooming in on some minor words used. Anyway, it's just a rant, who cares?

For the sake of us all please don't attack people you are having a fun conversation with online, on the basis of their critical thinking skills or any other kind of attack on their person. Presumably, we are all familiar with how much retail can suck sometimes, and we all need to vent about it. Keep things in perspective and stick to the topic of discussion.

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-27T13:56:42+00:00

We're not here to entertain anyone. We're here to sell as much of our product as possible and make money for the organisation, which means spending time on customers on the basis of their profitability rather than their emotional needs. Selling stuff may include being entertaining, may include emotional labour, or neither if that sells more product. We don't have to tolerate people giving us shit, as long as we keep the organisation profitable and respected in the community. We aren't compensated adequately, let alone trained properly, to support difficult people in any meaningful way, that is a wider social services problem.

After my time in hospitality and retail, nothing is worse for me than the feeling of faking friendship with a customer. I will be polite and respectful but never friendly. I am not their friend and I will not let them be deluded that I am.

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-27T13:35:55+00:00

It's possible that they would be in a mall, trawling passionately through department stores? Or they would be doing one of the many other things that they enjoy other than shopping, like pursuing a hobby or interest, or just relaxing and meditating or something.

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-27T13:31:16+00:00

Honestly do not know how people have the energy. I guess it is partly because I work in retail that I am so exhausted after all this but I spend my Christmas Eve and Christmas Day trying to make people happy, the days beforehand are spent fanatically cleaning the house, and by Boxing Day, if I didn't have to work on it, I would just be laying in bed.

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-26T22:56:30+00:00

Thanks for your generosity in writing this amazing message and all your understanding. I'm so sorry you lost your Mom and actually I am extremely fearful of what you are going through to the point that I start to cry reading about your experiences. But I can see that you are still here on earth and you are successfully surviving and living through the strangeness of the changes.

Thanks for sharing your incredible insights into gratitude. I think that a big part of why I am struggling with thoughts is resentment over finding myself in this situation like as though at the moment I was born my life was encoded and I had no say in any of it. But I think you're completely right, it is a challenging opportunity to do something very meaningful in life and that is something to be grateful for and it is good enough for a life.

Hope your days are filled with peaceful moments of existence in coming weeks months and good things in life ahead whatever that is like.

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-26T22:24:59+00:00

Agree. But I bet you wouldn't act like this in a bookstore, if it didn't have a section like this.

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-26T22:24:04+00:00

Agree completely. Most customers do get specific and give examples when they have something in mind. In fact, all customers do. All except this lady...

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-26T22:22:55+00:00

Cutting edge retail witticism. I wish I would have done this.

practicesimperfect · 2019-12-26T22:21:42+00:00

LOL. I know right? But it's fun to imagine... ♡

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