[Leica] A quick - non-visual and painful reminder why I should always carry a camera.

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Yes, and while I haven't gone fishing since I was 17, you should have the 
last one that got away :-)!!!

Actually, my favorite "lost" story is that when I was in Japan, one time I 
was in a train by myself w/o my Japanese friends or my family. Now normally 
as you know, Japanese "girls" are fairly reserved in public. Wouldn't you 
know it, 3 teenage girls started to play acting. One of them pretended to 
be shooting a gun with her fingers and hiding and coming up with all these 
stone faced Japanese adults around!! In other words, a perfectly normal NYC 
scene but a rare one in Japan!

I have my M7, but I was a coward and chickened out. I don't know the 
culture's reaction of tourist taking random pictures and since I don't 
speak the languages, I wouldn't be able to explain what and why I was doing 
it. Sigh...

At 12:00 PM 12/4/2004, B. D. Colen wrote:

>So late Wednesday evening I got a call telling me that I had to be on a
>7:30 a.m. flight to Florida Thursday morning, returning late Friday. I
>knew I'd be working the whole time, and with my back I really need to
>cut down on weight and clutter, so I didn't take a camera - first such
>decision in a long time.
>...

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