“Oh wow, I haven’t seen one of these in a really long time!”
Hannah looked up at her husband’s surprised exclamation. They’d stopped by the yard sale on their way home out of curiosity that bright spring morning; it was always fascinating to see the sort of things people were offering up. Chris was holding a digital camera straight out of the 1990s, examining it with a surprised look. Hannah could understand his surprise; with the rapidly advancement of phone technology, cameras like the ones he was holding had more or less faded away.
“It’s got a whole bunch of weird buttons, too.” Chris commented. “Gender, awareness, race….. I’ve never heard of a camera with those kind of options. Makes me wonder if this is a limited edition or something.” He said. Hannah shrugged. “It might be. How much are they asking for?” She replied.
Chris checked the small price tag attached to the camera’s strap and his eyes widened. “Only five dollars.” He said in amazement. Hannah shrugged. “With everyone having a camera of their own in their pocket these days, they are probably glad to get anything for it.” She said. Chris nodded and asked “what do you think, should we buy it?” After his wife nodded, Chris headed over to the woman running the yard sale. Two minutes and five dollars later, the couple were climbing back into their car with their new camera.
Chris and Hannah were in their early forties and had been married for just over twenty years. They had three children: a sixteen year old son, Matt, a fifteen year old daughter, Abby, and a ten year old son, Luke. Matt was the athlete of the family, playing football and hockey. Abby was really interested in art and writing, and wanted to be an author when she got older. Luke, for his part, was still more interested in Pokémon and transformers than anything else.
Chris had taken a few days off from his office job to spend more time with his family. He was a bit of a workaholic, and Hannah had been on his case to spend more time away from his work. “Your job can wait, dear. The work will always be there.” She had said, “but you won’t always have a chance to be here for time with our kids while they are still young.”
Of course, with all the extracurricular events going on the family was going to have a busy day. Matt had football practice later that day, Abby had her art lessons, and Luke was supposed to be doing an online tutoring session up in his room.