In response to the little enigma surrounding my first post, I shall now relate the story of my unfortunate brush with a wayward fruit salad. *ahem*

Some years ago, I took a road trip from my native San Diego, CA all the way out to Newton, KS for my surrogate brother's wedding.

In light of the upcoming event, and the fact that I was the first person in my immediate family to travel that far east, I decided to bring my beloved Canon RebelX EOSS along for the ride.

6 states and 9 rolls of film later, I had reached my destination. The drive had been long, but the scenery along the way was absolutely breathtaking. My "brother's" wedding was lovely and it was wonderful for me to see all of my surrogate family together in their home state.

Toward the end of the reception, however, as I was making my way to the ladies' room to freshen up, another guest with a full plate of fruit salad crossed my path and collided with me.

The sugary, plasmatic fruit-chunk explosion which resulted is a scene forever etched in my memory. The mess covered my dress, my hair, and (of course) my beloved camera.

In desperation, I fled the rest of the way to the ladies' room to try and recover my precious equipment....and my dignity.

Emerging some minutes later, I finished up the last 2-3 shots on the last roll of film, but all the while, my camera grinded and gurgled in unhappy objection. Evidently, I had my doubts about whether those last few pictures would turn out.

Upon returning to San Diego and developing the pictures, my suspicions were confirmed. The last few frames of the very last roll of film were distorted and my beloved RebelX was ruined.  :'(

And so it remains to this day until I can afford to take it to the professionals to have it completely disassembled and thoroughly cleaned one piece at a time. *sigh!*  :-/

So that's the tragic tale of accidental assault with dessert, and the reason behind my pent-up artistic frustrations (well, some of them, at least  ;) ).


"I saw it! It was a run-by fruiting!" - Mrs. Doubtfire

LOL!

I've always been leary of fruit salad.  You never know when it might decide to escape from the communal grouping and take a dive down the front of your blouse, skirt or pants.  

I'm so sorry to hear that your beloved camera took the brunt of the run in and hope that you can soon have it back snapping pictures for you.

OMG!!  I have the EOS Digital Rebel.  I would be so upset if it collided with a fruit salad.  My heartfelt sympathies to you!  About how much does it take to get it cleaned?  I've never looked into something like that before.

Cynde

Yeesh, that was some dangerous fruit salad!  :o

It's too bad what happened to your camera. I'd be really upset if that were me. I hope you can get it fixed one day soon.

First, sorry about your beloved camera. But did ya ever notice that fruit salad behaves very similar to lemmings? Once a grape or melon piece jumps, they all follow...  ;D

Sorry to hear about your camera.  Nasty salad!

FYI, one can achieve the exact same results of camera death with a mixed drink as well.  It's the perfect camera crime, a little 'Alabama Slammer', and "bye-bye" great picture-taking camera...when midnight arrives, you just dig a hole deep, deep into your back yard...and no one is the wiser.  You'll never be suspected, just proceed with life as normal.....shhhhhhhhh.  :-X

Ohhhh that SUCKS!  :o I'm sorry to hear your camera had to suffer so much. Glad you're defruited now.

Anais

Obviously it did nothing for your camara but what about your hair?  Ooops, this isn't the "You know when spend to much time LL" thread ;D

:P :'(
I hope that fruit salad was suitably disciplined.
Thanks for enlightening us to the diabolical schemes of the fruit salad