Vanity wins

To be recognised is not difficult, every day in an Italian café and they are all happy to greet you, even if the only thing that you consume is one of their cups of coffee.

Watch them all at their work and read the news on the phone. Listen to the radio with those fancy earphones. They drown the restaurant's music and allow the music on the favourite radio station to play quietly in the silence.

Afterwards, go to the downstairs section in the mall and go to a machine to have some passport pictures taken. They have to be in a computer-recognisable format, and this machine is supposed to deliver that.

There is a computer voice that gives instructions on how to pose

Afterwards, look at the pictures.

It is impossible to recognise that person, scowling at the silly computer voice, this will not do, not even for a drivers licence.

Back tomorrow again, and try to put the head farther back in the photo cabin, and tilt the face upwards.Maybe the lighting will be better then.

Vanity wins.