Supergran loves sunsets and silhouttes. Late this afternoon, when Supergran was sitting having her cuppa tea after dinner, she glanced up at the window of the living room. There she saw a lovely rosy glow. "Ooooh" said Supergran "a wonderful sunset. Must hurry and get my camera before it sets..It is just at the rooftop level and the sky is darkening already".
She hurriedly toddles into the computer room fpr the camera, and rushes back as fast as her old legs will carry her. "Quickly" she thinks," no time to lift the blinds, poke the camera lens between and snap quickly". Click..click..there, got it!. better check the LCD screen... "Arghhhh...there's a reflection", the light is on, and reflectingt into the darkening exterior - Never mind, take a few more shots, closer to the window, and shield the lens from the reflecting light. OK quickly now...can't be more than a minute left". Supergran peers through the viewfinder..."What's that!!!" she screams, it's a red rectangle blinking in the view finder and the camera doesn't turn on - oh no! it's the @@#$&! battery warning signal. Keep trying - wait a second, try again...No dammit, no good"
Supergran was about to give up,, but no...off to the office again to quickly search for some re-charged batteries. Quickly, quickly...CRASH!! "What's that?" - one of the batteries had dropped from her fumbling fingers and is rolling on the floor trying to hide under the filing cabinet. In a flash Supergran bends down to pick it up. Getting up again took a lot longer...but she made it. Back to the front window....how is the sun...Ok still there... Never mind the window. Go out of the front door no time for coat, it's only -6 degrees, and you won't freeze if you are quick. Opening the door she stepped out onto the icy porch...darn it, couldn't see the sun from here...back inside, quickly, quickly she has surely missed it by now.
Supergran hurries to the front window once again...this time she pauses slightly to pull up the blind. Once up, and camera powered on. Click..click.. several more shots at the glowing sun and it's reflection on the icy snow. Satisfied, she retreats a few paces, relaxes and takes in the beautiful sights of nature happening in front of her. Suddenly her razor sharp brain is thinking..... "Hmmmm..really strange, I have had enough time to do all those things and the sun has still not set" "It doesn't even seem to have changed it's position at all"
The sky is, by now, quite dark and as Supergran peers at the scene, she realizes that the lovely 'sun' that she was so avidly photographing was, in fact, a STREET LIGHT! Well there is SOME excuse for this mistake as this particular street light has a mind of it's own, and most of the winter it does not light up with the other street lights, it only works when it feels like it, and tonight was one of those nights....Supergran is considering changing her name to Stupidgran!
She hurriedly toddles into the computer room fpr the camera, and rushes back as fast as her old legs will carry her. "Quickly" she thinks," no time to lift the blinds, poke the camera lens between and snap quickly". Click..click..there, got it!. better check the LCD screen... "Arghhhh...there's a reflection", the light is on, and reflectingt into the darkening exterior - Never mind, take a few more shots, closer to the window, and shield the lens from the reflecting light. OK quickly now...can't be more than a minute left". Supergran peers through the viewfinder..."What's that!!!" she screams, it's a red rectangle blinking in the view finder and the camera doesn't turn on - oh no! it's the @@#$&! battery warning signal. Keep trying - wait a second, try again...No dammit, no good"
Supergran was about to give up,, but no...off to the office again to quickly search for some re-charged batteries. Quickly, quickly...CRASH!! "What's that?" - one of the batteries had dropped from her fumbling fingers and is rolling on the floor trying to hide under the filing cabinet. In a flash Supergran bends down to pick it up. Getting up again took a lot longer...but she made it. Back to the front window....how is the sun...Ok still there... Never mind the window. Go out of the front door no time for coat, it's only -6 degrees, and you won't freeze if you are quick. Opening the door she stepped out onto the icy porch...darn it, couldn't see the sun from here...back inside, quickly, quickly she has surely missed it by now.
Supergran hurries to the front window once again...this time she pauses slightly to pull up the blind. Once up, and camera powered on. Click..click.. several more shots at the glowing sun and it's reflection on the icy snow. Satisfied, she retreats a few paces, relaxes and takes in the beautiful sights of nature happening in front of her. Suddenly her razor sharp brain is thinking..... "Hmmmm..really strange, I have had enough time to do all those things and the sun has still not set" "It doesn't even seem to have changed it's position at all"
The sky is, by now, quite dark and as Supergran peers at the scene, she realizes that the lovely 'sun' that she was so avidly photographing was, in fact, a STREET LIGHT! Well there is SOME excuse for this mistake as this particular street light has a mind of it's own, and most of the winter it does not light up with the other street lights, it only works when it feels like it, and tonight was one of those nights....Supergran is considering changing her name to Stupidgran!
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