Wal-mart takes another wrong turn

I love pictures. End of story. As a little kid, my friends joked about the fact that I always had a camera with me anytime we went anywhere. Yep…that was me. The weird little fourth grader taking pictures on field trips…

My defense has always been that you can NEVER have too many pictures! As life marches forward, people usually get some strange enjoyment from looking (and laughing) at images of their former self.

Thanks to my avid picture-taking through the years, I will be able to do that for years to come! What adult doesn’t want to look back and reminisce over memories from that trip to the Governor’s mansion in fifth grade? Or the trip to the beach where I felt the need to take pictures of stuffed animals posed on the balcony of my hotel? These were crucial points in life that thankfully were documented by an over-zealous adolescent.

My parents know how much I love pictures, so sometimes they get a few extra printed for me when they print some for themselves. Over Christmas break they did just that, but my dad decided to try the “true digital” photos that were being advertised on the Wal-Mart website.

Well it turns out that “true digital” photos are about four inches tall by five inches wide. Imagine my dismay when I realized that none of these pictures would fit my picture frames and that they would all leave random space in the slots of photo albums.

Since four inches by six inches has been the standard size, this throws a bit of a kink in my entire concept of photos. The pictures are still great, but what am I going to do? Will companies now start making smaller picture frames? What happens to the countless numbers of picture frames that line my walls and book shelves?

For now I am content knowing that I can still have pictures printed in four by six size. But if they ever take that away, I might have to demand that they throw in all new picture frames…

This post was contributed by Erin Weeks.