is taking good care of something you borrowed.
treating the item like your own.
being careful with it.
apologizing when that something gets broken - be it accidental or intentional.
not being indifferent when confronted by the owner.

i checked up on lens errors for canon cameras today. turns out the repair cost is usually more expensive than the camera itself, and it usually occurs when the camera is dropped from a height when the power is on, leading to either a damage to the lens withdrawing mechanism or getting dirt stuck in the mechanism. either way, expensive.

i have never ever dropped my camera before, and its surprising and disappointing that once it is out of my hands, it "falls from a height" because some idiot banged into the person using the camera and it dropped, and now there's a lens error. and the US trip is only 2 weeks away. i want my camera for the trip.

sigh.

[cam woes]

-cheryl~*

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