Snappy Snaps

I needed to get my passport renewed and as per my usual last minute style, I remembered exactly 6 weeks before I’m next travelling (which is how long they say it will take eek). Despite having a particularly lazy day appearance-​wise (of all the days to wear zero make up and not wash my hair!) I had no choice but to get some photos taken.
Being painted bright yellow on the outside, this place had stuck in my head when walking past. I wandered in and asked one of the three staff members if they took passport pics. She asked me to follow her downstairs where they have a plain coloured background and lighting set up to take them straight away. It took me ages to take all my layers off from the cold outside; I found myself automatically making small talk to fill the silence, but the woman holding the camera clearly wasn’t a fan. It was actually a little disconcerting how silent she was. By this time I was too embarrassed to ask to check my hair (so my own fault there’s a little tuft sticking out of the side of my ponytail in the pics). I was also was smiling far too much in an attempt to cover my awkwardness, which you’re not supposed to do in passport photos, meaning we had to take three. By the third one I actually had to think of something really dark (like, even worse than Mufasa dying) to keep a straight face.
Back upstairs we went and the unsmiling but extremely efficient lady printed my mug shots from one of the machines. She then stamped each of them out at the correct size using a handy pre-​sized rectangular cutter and charged me £10 for 6. In total I couldn’t have been there more than 10 minutes which seemed amazingly snappy service to me, and the part that took the longest was me taking off and on my coat/​scarf/​mittens. You probably don’t have that default nervous smile issue like I do either so would be even quicker.
My only suggestion is to give us the option of paying for 2 photos rather than making you print 6. It’s bad enough that one of them will stay with me for the next ten years every time I travel, but nobody needs to see the other 4 so they’re a bit of a waste. Still, I’m very grateful to this place for making an annoying last min task almost too easy to be true — now let’s just hope the passport arrives in time!