Ugh...the trials of getting toy camera film developed at Walgreens. I don't know why I even bother, except it's the only place to get film developed within easy walking distance. Every time I bring in a roll of toy camera film, they freak out. It's party my fault; I really should warn them in advance that the exposures might be square (Diana Mini) or have two exposures to a frame (Diana Mini or The Golden Half) or they might not be precisely spaced (Gakkenflex TLR). When I pick up said film the exasperated clerk usually apologizes, stating they didn't know what went wrong, that they've never seen anything so weird like that. My favorite is when I get back a set of entirely unexposed negatives. Whoops, my bad. I forgot to take the lens cap off. It's not your fault, Walgreens employee, it's mine. When that happens, they just charge $2.99 for developing the film since they couldn't make prints.

The other day I picked up a roll of 24 exposures. Twenty-four exposures on The Golden Half yields 48 shots, two per print. Usually. I was instantly suspicious when the clerk rang up the sale and said "$15.37." Fifteen dollars for a roll of twenty-four? I immediately figured out why it cost so much, but, like I said before, it's my own damn fault. From now on I'm asking for developing only, although I fear the roll they're developing now is a roll of thirty-six. I hope it wasn't shot with The Golden Half. I don't even want to know what they're going to charge me if they print it out as seventy-two photos.