Real Bare Soles - Israeli legs for days

Sometimes I sit down to shoot and it's been days or even weeks with no luck, and when I finally am ready to shoot and I happen upon a great subject, the camera will not work. I can't even tell you how awful that is. This recently happened with a long slender Israeli girl I saw put her feet up. She was talking on the phone in Hebrew ... her legs, which are about twice as long as mine, stretched WAY out, her beautiful bare feet up on a chair. They were dangling over the edge of the seat and so in order to get my ideal angle I needed to sit a little closer, so I did, I took the camera out, and -- it would not work. Some sort of error message showed up on the viewfinder. You feel like when this happens. I fussed with it and tried different things, because the error was completely indecipherable, until I finally took the memory card out and reinserted it, but figuring this fix out took me about eight minutes of trial and error. So this worked and I FINALLY was able to record, but then I started shooting and the girl, who had been regarding me with detached amusement, got a call and quickly got up and left. Total time captured? About 40 seconds.