Re: [Leica] i found a leica in a taxi

[John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>]

No longer do I wish to live the life of Reilly.......the life of Cassidy is
looking so much better!

John Collier

> From: Kyle Cassidy <cassidy@netaxs.com>
> 
> ..... so, after day 3 of the RNC was over, i went to the marriot hotel
> where a bunch of the delegates are staying and positioned myself in the
> bar, all the better to get candids of the delegates getting rowdy. there
> were lots of republican's boozing it up, wearing big cowboy hats. they
> were so friendly it was pretty easy to get into a conversation
> with them and they were all eager to be photographed.
> 
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/rnc/smtexas1.jpg
> 
> they were also all very eager to buy drinks for the nice young
> photographer from philadelphia. by the time the bar closed we were all
> very merry (i was about six scotches and three guinesses merry, most of
> my new cowboy friends were merrier). i jumped in a taxi and as i'm riding
> home i see, on the seat next to me, a leica m6. holy moly! i pick it up, a
> nice black one with some brassing and some lens on it (things are sort of
> swishing around past me like an ocean at this time). i'm thinking "wow, i
> found a (hic) leica in a (hic) taxi. (hic)." then i realize that it was
> _my_ leica that had fallen out of my camera bag, which has upended and
> there's film and batteries and flashes and garbage all over the floor of
> the cab rolling around.
> 
> win some, lose some.
> 
> kc
>