I can gripe too!
I tried to get a shot of some streets downtown when it was snowing. I got attacked twice by rampaging salt trucks, on the same street! They threw rocks at me! Rocks made of salt!
I just got a fancy new tripod, with nice thick metal legs. It’s fancy and black and has a massive ball head that supports just under 40lbs. I was really excited about the upgrade in my image. I was all set to look cool. But, I didn’t bring gloves, so I used a paper napkin touch it. The napkin stuck. I pulled half of it off. I used another napkin, that stuck as well. At no point did it occur to me to wait a second or two between taking the napkin out of the warm, bag (full of steaming hot breakfast sandwiches and condensation) and sticking it on the freezing cold bare metal.
Not only did all the people on their way to work see me standing out there, like a jackass, with Caffe Baci napkins stuck to my tripod, fidgeting like crack head to keep warm, with my camera pointed at nothing, NOT ONLY THAT, but a real photographer (with gloves!) politely asked me to get out of the way of his shot after scowling at me for a good 5 minutes. I’m sure part of that time was spent looking for toilet paper on my shoes.
And, on top of all of that, none of my shots turned out.
