Just One! Are You Kidding?
By Jeff Moffitt
@moffittjc (121656)
Gainesville, Florida
May 30, 2022 6:07pm CST
Most people here know that I am a Disney fanatic, and spend a great deal of time at the Walt Disney World Resort theme parks. So it should come as no surprise that I spent the weekend there with my family to celebrate one more year of circling the sun!
The funny thing is, I just pulled up the photos on my smartphone today and realized that I only took one photo the entire 3 days I was there!
Are you kidding? How in the world did I manage to go 3 whole days without taking a thousand pictures? But seriously, I only took one photo the entire time!
Thankfully, everyone else that was with me was taking photos the entire time (at least I hope they were). I guess I'll find out soon when I ask them all to share.
Have you ever had so much fun that you forgot to take photos to remember the occasion by?
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
Why thank you pretty lady! I always hoped I would be one of those guys that got better looking as he aged. You know, like Richard Gere! Unfortunately, Richard Gere I am not! lol
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
@db20747 Thanks! But I can’t attract beautiful women like Richard Gere does! Haha
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@db20747 (43440)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
31 May 22
@moffittjc R U kidding! Richard's got nothing on you!
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
@CarolDM Every now and then I will spot him at the parks. But he is almost always at Magic Kingdom, along with the other Pooh characters. I was very surprised to see Pooh at Epcot, it’s not a park he’s usually at. I also saw Donald and Daisy as well at Holly Studios.
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
I wish the photo wasn't elongated. I tried editing a few times and re-sizing it, and everything else turned up sideways on here! It's such a great photo of Pooh. He was out chasing butterflies in one of the gardens at Epcot. And playing peek-a-boo with some of the guests. Unfortunately, I never caught a glimpse of Eeyore anywhere. I did see Mickey and Minnie a few times, and also Chip N Dale. Interestingly, Chip N Dale were a huge hit with the crowds, probably because of their new movie that just came out.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
31 May 22
@moffittjc Eeyore seems to have disappeared off the radar. But he will always be my favorite.
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@FourWalls (68888)
• United States
31 May 22
Not since the advent of the smart phone. Back in the days of the Pentax K1000, yes, I’d decide if I wanted to lug that thing around or just enjoy where I was.
Happy birthday!
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
Thank you for the birthday wish! I've kinda been celebrating all month!
I usually take a gazillion pictures wherever I go. I still can't believe I took one picture the entire three days.
I remember the days of having to lug around 35 mm cameras and all the different zoom lenses! lol
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@wolfgirl569 (107859)
• Marion, Ohio
31 May 22
I am not the best at remembering to take photos anytime
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
I'm usually the one taking all the photos when we travel places, but for some reason I wasn't this time. I guess maybe I was having too much birthday fun!
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@RasmaSandra (80635)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 May 22
I have even forgotten to take my camera with me but that was so long ago. I think I pretty much have all the DIsney cartoon movies on video and often like to watch them just to liven my mood.
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
Do you by any chance have a subscription to Disney+? If so, you've got to see the new Chip N Dale's Rescue Ranger movie. It is amazing!
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@RasmaSandra (80635)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
31 May 22
@moffittjc no I don't I mostly watch stuff on You Tube, DVDs and videos
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Jun 22
@RasmaSandra I log into Disney+ under my ex-wife’s account! Lol
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
I guess our brains just got too excited and went into overload mode! haha
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@RubyHawk (99405)
• Atlanta, Georgia
31 May 22
@moffittjc Yep, I think that’s what happened.
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@snowy22315 (181948)
• United States
31 May 22
Often I wish I had taken pictures and I intended do, but didnt, Happy Bday!
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
That's how it was for me. I had every intention of taking a billion pictures, and then somehow forgot to do so!
Thank you for the birthday wish. Twenty-nine never felt so good!
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
31 May 22
Yes I’ve done that or my phone not have enough battery or not enough space: which is why as soon as I post them on Facebook in an album I deleted them from my phone.
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
31 May 22
@moffittjc I don’t even know how many it takes till my space is full. I’m a weekly deleter.
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
@ShyBear88 I just looked on my phone, and I have 7,683 photos, and only 17% of my phone's total capacity is being used right now. I've got a long way to go before I have to start worrying about deleting photos!
@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
I used to have that problem on my old phone, but on my current phone I could probably take 10,000 more pictures and still not take up all the memory and storage space!
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
It is such a cute picture, I really wished it didn't show up elongated on myLot. I've tried editing a bunch of different ways, but haven't been able to get it to look normal on here. Oh well, it's still a good picture.
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@Juliaacv (51452)
• Canada
3 Jun 22
@moffittjc Mine is coming up next month already.
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Jun 22
@Juliaacv Yay! Time to start celebrating!
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Jun 22
I did have a really fun birthday! So much so that I wish I could do it again every month! Lol
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@LadyDuck (471968)
• Switzerland
31 May 22
@moffittjc Exactly, I have many. The worst is that we bought the very first digital camera from Canon. The camera saved the photos on very small floppy discs, that where read from another Canon device. I have almost 1,000 of those floppy discs, the Canon reader does not work anymore, they discontinued the product short after and all those photos are lost.
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
@LadyDuck Oh no! I wonder if there is any kind of photo or camera shop you could tak the discs to for them to attempt to recover them?
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
Lacking photos from your theme park visits is more detrimental to you than me, due to the distance you’d have to travel to visit again!
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
25 Jun 22
Thank you! In a few more days it will be one month since my birthday. I guess at that point I should stop celebrating! lol
I am finding that as I get older I am taking less and less pictures. It should be the other way around though!
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
25 Jun 22
@paigea It's funny, because back in the days when we had to load actual film in our cameras, and then take them to get developed, I took pictures like there was no tomorrow. And now that photo taking is as easy as aiming our phones at something, I find that I hardly take any pictures. Maybe I just forget somehow because of how easy and convenient it is.
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@paigea (36316)
• Canada
25 Jun 22
@moffittjc l never took many pictures. It was a big deal getting them developed and then finding out they weren't great pictures. Now I haven't really changed my habit.
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@lovebuglena (44713)
• Staten Island, New York
31 May 22
Enjoying your time there is more important than taking photos. I think anyway.
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Jun 22
I like enjoying the moment whenever I’m on vacation, not constantly staring at my phone.
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
6 Jun 22
@lovebuglena Well said! There’s no need to waste your time filming a concert. Just enjoy the show, and if you want to relive those concert memories later, just search YouTube and watch the videos of all the other idiots who recorded the concert! Lol
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@lovebuglena (44713)
• Staten Island, New York
4 Jun 22
@moffittjc It's like when people go to a concert and a lot of the time they have their phones out recording. I just don't get that. Put the phone away and enjoy the damn show!
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Jul 22
I agree. I should go back again....
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
4 Jul 22
@porwest It sure seems like it. I don’t know how it can be as crowded as it is, no one can afford to go there anymore. But where are all these people coming from that they can afford to drop a million on Disney?
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@porwest (92404)
• United States
3 Jul 22
@moffittjc What's that place cost these days for a visit? About a million?
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@artemeis (4194)
• China
31 May 22
Yes I can relate to this too. The sights, sounds and surroundings are simply just too overwhelmingly good and everything just happens in a flash. Asking to stop and pose is simply inconvenient and cumbersome. Or asking someone to hold my mobile phone to take another shot is just not me - in case the phone is dropped accidentally.
So yeah just wanted to enjoy the moments and forget about the pictures.
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
I think that is exactly what I was doing…enjoying the moment!
@JESSY3236 (20046)
• United States
31 May 22
Actually Yes. Me and Chris went to a zoo once and I took my camera (this was before I had my cell phone) and I didn't take any pictures. But then the camera really didn't work really good. Happy Birthday!!
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Jun 22
That’s funny that you took a camera with you and didn’t take any pictures!
@JudyEv (341692)
• Rockingham, Australia
31 May 22
It hasn't happened to me too often but I have a friend who never takes photos. She says she likes to experience whatever it is without the distraction of taking photos. To each their own but there are many occasions that never come to mind unless I see a photo,
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 May 22
I sometimes feel the same way as your friend. I think there has to be a balance of enjoying the moment and capturing the moment in photos. But I don’t want to be that person who misses out on the beauty and experience of everything happening around me because my face is buried in my camera or phone.
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@db20747 (43440)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
31 May 22
I've been to Disney world In Orlando about four times. My grandmother just loves Disney world!! Hard to believe only one photo. But when you're having fun you forget even photos. Which reminds me, I need to pull out my Disney photos and have some fun talking about how fun it was!!
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@LindaOHio (181177)
• United States
31 May 22
I take a thousand pictures when we travel. I only took one on our trip to Erie. I didn't know that we weren't going to the room after breakfast; so I didn't have my camera. Hubs drove around to two lighthouses; and then we saw a whole bunch of turkeys right next to the car. No camera! Sigh, I wished you a Happy Birthday on Facebook; but here's another one: Happy Birthday!
@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Jun 22
At my age, I’ll take all the happy birthday greetings I can get! Haha
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@moffittjc (121656)
• Gainesville, Florida
27 Jul 22
I definitely enjoyed every minute of my Disney trip. I always do!
