My Response to the Ad
Hi,
I would love for me and my girlfriend to be models for your outdoor photography shoot.  I’m glad you stated in the ad that our privacy is 100% guaranteed and respected.  My girlfriend and I both value our privacy so is it possible to request that there are no cameras present during the shoot?
We are both very camera shy.
Thank you
Wyatt 

Ben’s Response to Me
Hi Wyatt,

Thank you for contacting me.

If you don’t mind where are you and your girlfriend from? I’d like to
take pictures with a traditional theme.

Btw, I don’t quite get it with “there are no cameras present during
the shoot”. What does it mean?

Cheers,
Ben

My Response to Ben
Hey Ben,

My girlfriend and I are both from Sweden.  We are very interested in doing some modelling. 

My girlfriend and I are both quite camera shy.  That’s why I requested that there be no cameras present during the photo shoot. Something about looking into that camera lens gives me the creeps if you know what I  mean.  I’m sure it must possible to do the photo shoot without using cameras.  After all, the camera wasn’t even invented until the 1600′s.  So surely they must have been using some other device for photo shoots before the 1600′s.

What do you mean by a traditional shoot by the way?

Thank you
Wyatt

Ben’s Response to Me
Hi Wyatt,

Unfortunately, I am using my camera to any photo shoots.

Cheers,
Ben

My Response to Ben
Hello Ben,

Thanks for your honesty.  I appreciate the fact you would need to use cameras to do your photo shoot.  I guess there’s no way around that. 

Instead of getting rid of the cameras, would it be possible to request that you not be present for the photo shoot?  I think my girlfriend and I could get used to the cameras if there was nobody else in the area.
I think it’s the combination of Camera plus Photographer that makes me a little nervous.  If we could take one of those out of the equation, I think we could do this thing.

Thanks
Wyatt

No Response from Ben

One More Email to Ben
Hi Ben,

I hope you are doing well.
I haven’t heard back from you and I think I know why.  I was stupid of me to ask you to do a photo shoot without a camera or a photographer present.
I came to this conclusion after chatting with my girlfriend on the phone.  The conversation went like this:

Me:  “Hey there, I’ve got great news!  I emailed a photographer and I told him me and my girlfriend would like to do some modelling and he seemed very interested.”
My Girlfriend:  “Look, you idiot, I told you I’m not your girlfriend.  I barely even know you.”
Me: “I asked him if it’s possible to do the photo shoot without cameras because we’re camera shy and to protect our privacy.”
My Girlfriend: “Would you please stop calling me!”
Me: “He said he has this strange rule that a photographer and camera must be present at all his shoots.”
My Girlfriend: “I’ve had enough of this.  I’m hanging up now.”
Me: “Anyway, I’m still negotiating with him and I just …” CLICK
Me: “Hello?  Hello?”

Anyway, Ben, obviously now I understand why you need a camera and photographer at your photo shoots.  I’m okay with this.  Since it’s an outdoor shoot, why don’t we do it when it’s dark outside?  If we do the photo shoot at say 2 o’clock in the morning, I would have no problems with the camera and photographer being present.  After all  I wouldn’t be able to see them.  I must, however, insist that you don’t use any lights as that would defeat the purpose.  Well, I suppose a flash may be okay as it would only be on for a fraction of a second.

Do we have a deal?

Wyatt

Sebastien’s Response to Me
good evening
thanks for your exchange but i m still in trouble with japanese so i don t want to start learning another langage. I will ask my co worker if someone interested to learn your mother tongue.
if someone interested i will give your email to him. good luck to find your wishing exchange and sorry again i cannot help you.
sincerily yours.

My Response to Sebastien
Hello again,
Thank you for your quick response.
I am still very much interested in learning French from you.  I understand you want to learn Japanese and unfortunately I’m not fluent in that language.  How would you feel if I spent the next two weeks learning Japanese and then I could trade you Japanese lessons for French lessons?
Do we have a deal?
Wyatt

Sebastien’s Response to Me
dear wyatt
I like teaching it s my true job and i m enjoy it everyday. I m living in Japan for 6 years i can speak japanese but would like to improve more especially my fluency.
i don t know your japanese and french level either. Which level in french and japanese? If you review japanese are you enought fluent to speak daily life topics ?
i m very sorry about croatian if i would like to learn croatian i m sure i cannot find teacher.
tell me more about your french and japanese speaking ability.
sebastien

My Response to Sebastien
Hello again Sebastian,
You asked about my fluency in French and in Japanese. 
Well, I think it’s safe to say, my cat knows almost as much French as I do.  The only thing I know to say in French is “Buenos Dias”, which I believe means both Hello and Goodbye in the French language.  But I am keen to learn.

As far as my fluency in Japanese, I probably know enough to order food in a Japanese restaurant.  But only if the waiter also knows English.
But I think I could get up to speed in a couple of weeks.

I am still interested in learning French from you.
So, I’m thinking there’s two options:

1. I learn Japanese over the next two weeks and then trade you Japanese lessons for French lessons.

2. I forgot to mention, there are a few other languages I know.
What if I taught you to speak German and Thai and Croatian in return for your French lessons?
According to Wikipedia, German has roughly 90 million speakers, Thai has 20 million speakers and Croatian has 10 million speakers.  This adds up to 120 million speakers.  Which is the roughly the same as the number of Japanese speakers in the world.
So this way you could communicate with the same number of people as if you learned Japanese!  Granted, they would be totally different people, but nonetheless the same number of people.

How does this sound to you?
Talk to you soon!

Wyatt

My Response to the Ad
Hello,
I have a question regarding your 1970s Playskool McDonalds.  Are there any black figurines included or are the figurines all white.  I’m just asking out of curiousity.  Now I’m not racist or anything like that.  Some of my best friends have best friends who are black.
Wyatt

Jan’s Response to Me
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My Response to Jan
Hello,

Thank you for your response. 
You mentioned there are indeed black figurines in your 1970s McDonalds playset.  Now, I’m just wondering how historically accurate that is. 
In the small town in Canada where I lived in the 1970s, there were no black people in our McDonalds.  I don’t think black people really became commonplace until the mid 1980s with the popularity of Michael Jackson and MC Hammer’s parachute pants. 

If I were to purchase your Playskool set, would it be possible to request that it have the black figurines taken out?  Just to be historically accurate.  I mean if you went to see  a movie about Malcolm X, you wouldn’t expect a Chinese guy in the lead role, right?

Like I said, I’m not racist.  Some of my best friends’s  friends have friends who are black.

Thanks.

Wyatt