This is one of those girls I could swear I’ve shot or at least SEEN with her bare feet up before — but I just can’t place her. But she basically confirmed by her behavior that she’s either been filmed by me before or has at least seen me shooting. She had her big, well-worn white sneakers off and her socks tucked inside but her soles were pressed against the seat rather than having her legs extended with soles showing — but as soon as she saw me walk into view (she was sitting in the south alley) she visibly smirked and put her feet up on the seat back. I could not believe my eyes — her feet were so ... BIG. I took this as an open invitation and grabbed a chair at the next table, took my camcorder out without really hiding it, placed it in my lap, and opened the viewfinder.
I started shooting but was completely dismayed to see her shoot a peek at the camcorder and then put her feet down! I totally cursed myself for being so nonchalant about my approach — in my defense, she had put her big bare feet right OUT THERE in the alley for my view, after all. But had she? Maybe she just intended to tease me with those massive foot bottoms but I had come on too strong? Whatever had happened, what I did know beyond a doubt was that I’d only captured about 20 seconds of her.
Dejected, I sat there and waited a bit, camera off. I soon noticed she was texting madly, a smile on her face, and soon after reading a reply she let out a hearty laugh, texted something back, then, thank god, her long legs stretched back out and I saw those big fair soles quite clearly in my peripheral vision again, like two creamy surf boards.
I flipped the viewfinder open and went for it again. Then I captured something like 12 more minutes of her with her face in the background and those big soft soles right there, pointed at me, front and center in my viewfinder! Casually wriggling as if somehow anticipating my fantasies about tickling them. For a long while she seemed to be keen to have me on “ignore” even though I was basically right on top of her, but ... I saw her looking! And texting — seeming to completely love her ongoing text conversation! This is one of the most obvious examples ever of a girl who was texting about her bare feet being filmed — who was getting these texts ... her BFF? Husband? Even her mom? But then she would switch from secretly thinking the whole experience is hilarious, to just vegging out and looking around. But while I was shooting, “ignoring” me or not, she kept flexing her big feet so I got the full view of them. Size 11? Maybe, or maybe even bigger.
As I shot snd shot I began to lose circulation in my arms as I had to hold the camcorder at sort of an odd angle to get this perfect perspective. So I was actually kind of relieved that she seemed to come to a point where she decided to stop ignoring me and just tip her hand — “hey you I see you.” She knew, and she wanted me to know she knew. This was around the time she texted something, gave a long hard very amused look at the camcorder, and when this didn’t seem to rock my world, she TOOK MY PICTURE in literally the most brazen way any girl I’ve ever shot ever has, and I assume texted it to her hilariously laughing BFF. Once again, I just sat and kept shooting so she decided the sole show was over and put her feet down. When she reached for those boat-like sneakers I decided it was time to go, as I was super late for something else anyway.
The best part of this is imagining what was no doubt going through her head as she watched me film her huge, wriggling feet — no doubt thinking about that I would be doing with the footage! LOL!