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P*ss Adds Flavour to my Blog (final edit)

This might sound rude, but I can't help, to know this is true.  People react to negativity more strongly than they do to pleasantries.  I don't know about you, but when I have doubts of what I'm about to invest in, I look to the negative write-ups first.  Everyone seems to say the same old good things when things work out well.  However, people seem to be more specific about their displeasures when things don't go as planned.  In my case, my negative experience with some people is an example of just that.  Newegg.com or newegg.ca has a glutton of feedback that will help demonstrate my point.

So what does p*ss have to do with the point I'm trying to make here?  Well, my main focus is still to showcase the elegance of how a shoe uniquely fits on each person and the artistry and the colours that go into the aesthetics of the shoes' design.  However, when dealing with people, there will always be a chance of conflict because everyone thinks and reacts differently.  This includes those who act stupidly.  Therefore, you can say:  "That p*sses me off!!"

P*ss is a form of emotion - not the straw-coloured bodily fluids our desperate full bladders anxiously await to discharge...at least not in this blog.  My followers want to see me through my struggles.  They just can't wait to see what unfolds and how I go about overcoming those obstacles.  If this blog had no substance of p*ss, then no matter how much eye candy my viewers are fed, the taste to this blog would eventually become bland, and thus wouldn't be as much of a standout from the unsalted sea of other shoe sites out there.

Yes, p*ss!!  It might be a hard thing to swallow and I might not like its jet-stream of heat shot right towards my way, but when I have to defend myself from its toxins, I'm able to divert its attack and use it as fertilizer to nourish my blog's content.  So go ahead, my nay-sayers.  Keep p*ssing me off!  I'll just use that energy to my benefit at the expense of people's acts of stupidity, more often than not.  Liquid is supposed to douse these flaming annoyances and though, hot p*ss might spread them all over,  it also fuels my fire.

Oh, and that reminds me...I've spent so much time on this blog post, I almost forgot - I have to take a p*ss...aaahh!  Only my nay-sayers need to worry about my name change to Dick when it comes to the emotion of p*ss.  Pardon my p*ssy pun throughout this article.  I hope no one p*ssed their pants laughing today.

I Am Who I Am

When I first started this hobby, I only wanted to photograph shoes.  I was shy, embarrassed, and unsure about myself because I didn't know how people would react and I cared too much about people watching me.  Also, I couldn't have anticipated how important it is to be able to show strangers what I was up to when making such requests, and not just tell them that I liked shoes.  In the early going, I seemed to be a little tense.  That was the reason why, and not because I was trying to hide a negative ulterior motive from anyone.

Now that I've been shoe photographing for 3+ years and have discovered the truth to the C.K. brainwash, I'm doing a much better job projecting belief and confidence in what I do.  Don't get me wrong though.  I can't just be reckless.  I still have to respect people's personality, mood, and situation.  Now from experience, I know not to ask people with the N.F. persona, even if she might say "yes" the first time.  If I didn't know her, I wouldn't have asked her period!!

Because I write with my heart, you can get to know a lot about me through my blog.  There was an immediate connection with my friend's wife as a result.  However, the point I'm trying to make here is that once you get to know me, the main reason you wouldn't help me out again is shoe posing gets monotonous - not because you think I'm seeking a 2nd chance to capitalize on a missed opportunity to be mischievous.  I think that's why N.F. got skeptical when I asked her a 2nd time.  So N.F.!!  Have you read my blog yet?  DO  YOU uh-UN-DER-STAAAAAND NOoww???

What you read on here is who you'll meet in real life (IRL)!!  Read about my thoughts first.  Meet me later.  Frontrunners' C.K. did the opposite.  She thought she had a good read on my personality on Arthur, the customer (and my skin colour).  I was quiet, accommodating, and easily brainwashed.  Well surprise, surprise!!  We all know how that turned out.

The Positive Feedback I've Received...

We all know there's no way of telling for sure about the validity of testimonials.  The positive testimonials that Frontrunners gets is good and all but by the way their staff members conduct themselves, you can safely say the feedback they've posted is biased.  If any of you have taken a statistics course, that's called a sampling error - a sample of feedback that is not a proper representation of the entire population of people who have shopped there.  

I can't see how they can do a sudden change in gear shift to go from cold and arrogant to warm, caring, and loving from one customer to the next without completely supressing their negative demeanor.  Unless the customer(s) are oblivious to what their personalities really are, there always visible signs of egoism & arrogance that seeps through their body language that echo to your gut feel.  Listen to your gut.

Now that I've raised awareness about my treatment there, I'm sure you will be able to see through them too.  In other words, they are who they are and they can't change that.

Now I don't have any testimonials about my blog to post from fan mail.  However, I'm counting on the perceived credibility that I've established with my readers to take me at my word without any grains of salt, that there has been direct positive feedback given to me about my work.

Some of the positive feedback I've received include:

1. Handshakes from several of my shoe posers immediately after the photo shoot.  Yes, they initiated the handshakes.
2. "You take damn good photos," praised by a coffee store clerk.
3. "I didn't realize my shoes looked that good!" or "My shoes really do look good!" in reaction to the showing of my photos immediately after the photo shoot.
4. "When I saw your writing, it took my breath away!" one person said in awe, and:  "You write well...People believe you because you write with your heart."

Now if you still think I'm making this positive feedback up because I'm typing this up on a whim instead of something to copy and paste from, then all you have to do is sift through my blog again and re-absorb my hard work.  I'll let you be the judge of the validity of my claims here.

P*ss Adds Flavour to My Blog

Please refer to the edited version.

Why a Declined Request Bothers Me

**Scroll right to the bottom of this post for a direct answer to this article's heading**

Just to make sure people understand, I never oblige people to take on my request for shoe photos.  Either they feel like helping me out or they don't.  I get the best results when people are open and willing.  Therefore, they don't have to worry about being forced into posing for me against their own will.  If I sense an uneasy vibe when I ask, I remove myself away from that person right away to give them as little ammunition to slander me and to misportray my character.

**I want to get this article up as soon as I can but I'm appending more to this posting as we speak.  This is addressed to a specific person I've come in contact today.  I want her to see this...**

First of all, thank you N.F. for helping me out almost a year ago.  Until I find a quicker way to ©-stamp my photos, it will always take me a while to post everyone's shoe pics.  N.F. and others, I would like you to feast your eyes on this:

Even a simple composition like this takes 2 hours to complete.  Quite frankly, I'd be more than happy to help a "stranger" who can show me this level of creativity in the same way as I have to MY strangers!!

This is the complete thumbnail set of the shoe photos you've allowed me to take.  Tell me there isn't something in these photos that contain more than you've bargained for in a negative way.  In fact, I think you should take my request as a compliment - a compliment to your taste in style and the fact you look good in them.

Now, I want you folks to take a look at these shoes:

These are the Mizuno Wave Creation 15's - yellow/pink colourway that is rarely seen for sale, let alone being worn.  Now you tell me!  If you were a shoe photographer, would you let these shoes walk away without asking?  You know I run a shoe blog.  I've given you my business card quite a while ago and yet, you say you don't understand why I'm asking (again)??  Oh wait.  You must've not even looked at my blog at all and your reaction today signifies that you were skeptical even after the first photo shoot.  If you're that worried, why not browse through my blog right away.  I've worked very hard on the content of my website to legitimize such requests and not even once, did you bother to glance through it?  You're busy with your baby girl.  I get that, but you can't even spare 1 minute to open up your browser and it's taken me 3 hours to compose this article, let alone almost 2 years to compose everything up to this point.

Anyways, my point is, I don't expect everyone to help me out and that's okay.  I can always find someone else with something different on their feet.  What offended me was you imagined an ulterior motive to my request that wasn't even there.  You have zero excuses to be skeptical and zero excuses to not understand what my project entails!!  If you are that unreasonably defensive in nature, then the next time I see you, I won't even say hi to you, even though we're acquaintances well before the first photo request.  Angela, the Ladysmith thrift store shopper knows all about how I feel about her.  She tried to exchange pleasantries with me several times since then, but I would have none of it.  She knows she f*cked up but she's already permanently burnt the bridge b/n us.

Now, I had other plans tonight but it's good to see that my followers benefited from my agitated mood.  From now on, anyone who agrees to pose for me, why don't you just browse through my damn blog right away so we don't have to come to this point (the next time I ask you).

**Btw...did I do a good job letting it be known that I was agitated??  If not, I'm just going decide to ignore her from now on, let alone ask her for shoe pics.  Problem skeptic solved!!**