[Leica] What would you do if wifey dropped your MP?

[jcyleung8 at shaw.ca (Joe Leung)]

Dictum of the day.
(By Ted Grant):-

<<<<<<<But later as you pick-up the pieces don't let your tear drops get
salt  water on the salvageable parts. :-)>>>>>>>

Joe L






-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jcyleung8=shaw.ca@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jcyleung8=shaw.ca@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of Ted Grant
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:46 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] What would you do if wifey dropped your MP?


Howdy folks,
A very interesting topic to say the least given the variation of responses.
:-) So here's mine . :-)

Now what's first and foremost for you all to understand is... "My wife
bought me my first camera for birthday May 27, 1950!"  Leading to my first
newspaper picture 17 September 1951! :-) Followed by her life time of 56
years of wondering where in the world is my husband? :-)

And completely questioning her sanity at buying the first camera on many an
occasion. Hell far more than any of you know or understand what she put up
with without killing me! :-). :-)

If she dropped and smashed it to pieces? Hell so what, it's only a tool,
it's insured get another as I was going to replace it anyway! Besides what
could I say to this wonderful life that a dozen or more men or women would
kill to have enjoyed, suffered the failures, pee'd yer pants with excitement
and fear and survived to do it all again. ;-)

Nope a Leica is nothing more than a tool in our in hands, if it get's
smashed what the hell, who cares as it's a not a breathing human. Sure I
understand most of you are not pro's and have saved your money from income
to purchase, a damn lot of money. But if you do not have it insured then
your the idiot for not doing so, given it's a damn expensive tool! Toy?

Look at it this way............ you insure your car, your office and
belongings, house, life. So why not the camera and lenses of multi thousands
of dollars?

So if the woman you love dearly and children? My word how could you yell,
scream at or whatever if one of your children accidentally, and even though
you told them a thousand times not to "touch daddy's camera" but they blew
it to pieces and you didn't have it insured?

Now shouldn't you be screaming at you idiot?... "Yourself for not having it
in replaceable insurance!" And that's the reality of this whole topic. You
and how you look after and insure your gear!

Besides after you've smashed, like totalled a couple to "miny, minor pieces
or bent so bad it would make yer mother cry at the site. So when that
wonderful woman whom you married with great passion and love drops one and
bends it badly, why in heavens carry on like a wailing banshee over a
non-breathing item. Besides most of you folks don't make your living from it
so it's really a no big deal because you wont need it in a couple of hours
for an important shoot. And for sure "no body died because it got smashed!"

That is unless you can't control your rage at the pieces lying all over the
drive way and she wailing and cringing in the corner! ;-) And you take
unfortunate action! :-(

Sure we'd all be upset, that's a reasonable human re-action, put it in the
context it can be replaced by a phone call or drive to the local camera
store in 99.9999999999% of the time. Actually who cares.

Heck I'd be more upset if the film were lost more than the camera any day.

My first bad choice response to my wife would be...."Hey no big deal I was
going to get it replaced anyway!"

Now under certain situations that would be the wrong thing to say to a woman
you've been married to for 56 years!;-) Because I know her anguish would
quickly disappear by... "What do you mean you were going to get it
replaced?" And the attack would have you on the defensive faster than you
could blink! :-)

Better response, "it's OK dear no big loss, Love ya!" ;-) Give her a big
hug! But later as you pick-up the pieces don't let your tear drops get salt
water on the salvageable parts. :-)

ted