coffee no. 79

I like photolaboratories' displays and any time I pass them, I stop in order to look at the photos the owners want to show the walkins. No matter which country I am, these photos are always feeble, faded and utterly kitschy. Newlyweds standing against "sunset" background, or next to the plaster column; frightened children surrounded by old awful toys, young women in pensive poses (always with tilted head)... The kingdom of artificiality.
Most of these photos have hung in the windows for years -- for this time the women have been married to the men whom they were sending those melancholy portraits, the newlyweds maybe got divorced and the children threw away all their toys long time ago.