What Just Happened?!?! - Kate's Here!! Pt. IV

Beautiful picture that Kelly, Kate, and I are definitely not in.

As we were driving our rental car along the eastern coastal road in Mallorca, we stopped at a small turn-off overlooking this view.  As were were heading back to the car a small car pulled into the turn-off and two couples in their 60's(ish) got out.  At the car we decided that we should get them to take a picture of the three of us since 3 person selfies can be difficult.

I walked over to the two ladies who were standing at the guardrail and asked if they could take our picture, but the one lady continued talking to her friend.  I realized they were Spanish and so as I ask again in Spanish, while standing there with the universal sign of 'can you take a picture' (holding the camera out with the front facing you and ready to show where the shoot button is).  

As I'm asking, this woman starts talking to her friend again and gives me a slight 'turn away' shoulder.  Her friend glances up with her eyes, quickly looks back down, but never moves her head. Then talking woman akwardly turns into her friend so that she never has to face me and starts walking back to the car, with me just standing there holding a camera out.  I look over to the car where I make eye contact with one of the men in the group, and he does the most sheepish break-eye-contact-and-duck-back-into-the-car that has ever occurred while I am still standing there holding out the camera (now to just the empty space where people used to be).  They then all climb in the car with talking lady obviously forcing conversation and everyone else in silence, trying to look anywhere but where we are.

I turn and walk back to the car where Kelly and Kate are where we all look at each other and in silence climb back into the car, where we look at each other again and begin to burst out laughing.

It was the weirdest feeling not being ignored, but having someone, who obviously knew you were there, act like you weren't.  We still can't decide if the funniest part of the whole thing was talking/ignoring lady, or the other three members of the group who saw what was happening and just took it in silence.

Fortunately, a nice Dutch couple (who lived in Germany and were on the island for a week for a choir competition, yeah, they actually talked to us) took our picture a little ways down the road.

Bizarre.