hectors house
25-04-2013, 01:58 PM
Have just had one of the most stressful experiences of my life - day off today - I popped into Boots to get photo printed off for mindees birthday, took my camera with me. Took the XD card out of camera and put in XD slot on kodak machine, it wouldn't go in, so I turned it round and it went right in. Clicked on make photos from media card etc and it came up saying there weren't any photos on the file and to check media card, I pressed card to get it out and it wouldn't come out. I had to go across the shop to another counter to get help and I was worried about leaving card in machine unattended - anyway that was least of my worries!
Lady on another counter said someone would come over and help me in a few mins, so I went back and stood by machine - another lady came over and took front off machine, then took XD slot off and my card wasn't in it, she then checked all the other slots although I was adamant that I put it in XD one, she then virtually took apart the whole machine - :censored:well everything removeable and we still couldn't find it. To start with I was panicking that the photos would be lost then the full implication of loosing the whole card hit me.
I said to her I can't leave the shop until it is found, I am a childminder and have photos of children on this card and am registered with ICO - after half an hour she was getting very cheesed off with me (especially as she should have gone to lunch), she then picked up machine and shook it and we still couldn't find card or hear anything rattling - by this time I was on the floor looking under the counter, under the machine and asking her for a dustpan and brush so I could sweep whole shop (no I am not joking). Then a friend came in and asked if I was ok at which point I burst into tears trying to explain - I demonstrated again how I had put card in and then how it was stuck, I turned round to point across the shop to where I went for help and there on the floor, 5ft away was the :censored::censored: card. At which point I cried again and hugged everyone. I went elsewhere to have photo printed as the machine in Boots is still in lots of pieces - I hope the lady doesn't get the sack - when the coast was clear and she had gone to lunch, I popped back in with some flowers. I don't know how the card got on the floor and I don't care, I am just so relieved to have it back - I wouldn't even have cared if all the photos had been deleted (although not all have been downloaded) I was so glad not to have to tell the parents I had lost a card with photos of their children on.
My lesson learnt is not to take the actual card to Boots, just put photos I want to print on a usb stick - or order on line from snap fish. To download photos more promptly and to delete them off the card once they are downloaded.
Would I have had to notify the ICO if it hadn't turned up?
Still feeling very shakey - trying to revive myself with chocolate - I'm sure it's good for shock.
Lady on another counter said someone would come over and help me in a few mins, so I went back and stood by machine - another lady came over and took front off machine, then took XD slot off and my card wasn't in it, she then checked all the other slots although I was adamant that I put it in XD one, she then virtually took apart the whole machine - :censored:well everything removeable and we still couldn't find it. To start with I was panicking that the photos would be lost then the full implication of loosing the whole card hit me.
I said to her I can't leave the shop until it is found, I am a childminder and have photos of children on this card and am registered with ICO - after half an hour she was getting very cheesed off with me (especially as she should have gone to lunch), she then picked up machine and shook it and we still couldn't find card or hear anything rattling - by this time I was on the floor looking under the counter, under the machine and asking her for a dustpan and brush so I could sweep whole shop (no I am not joking). Then a friend came in and asked if I was ok at which point I burst into tears trying to explain - I demonstrated again how I had put card in and then how it was stuck, I turned round to point across the shop to where I went for help and there on the floor, 5ft away was the :censored::censored: card. At which point I cried again and hugged everyone. I went elsewhere to have photo printed as the machine in Boots is still in lots of pieces - I hope the lady doesn't get the sack - when the coast was clear and she had gone to lunch, I popped back in with some flowers. I don't know how the card got on the floor and I don't care, I am just so relieved to have it back - I wouldn't even have cared if all the photos had been deleted (although not all have been downloaded) I was so glad not to have to tell the parents I had lost a card with photos of their children on.
My lesson learnt is not to take the actual card to Boots, just put photos I want to print on a usb stick - or order on line from snap fish. To download photos more promptly and to delete them off the card once they are downloaded.
Would I have had to notify the ICO if it hadn't turned up?
Still feeling very shakey - trying to revive myself with chocolate - I'm sure it's good for shock.