Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/20

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Subject: [Leica] Quick Leica story
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu Sep 20 08:49:05 2007
References: <99BEFB76-C07F-47EA-9227-3883BC0AA839@depaul.edu>

On Sep 19, 2007, at 9:47 PM, bob palmieri wrote:

> Y'all -
>
> So it seems, I was buying some cat food this evening when a store  
> employee, noticing the black thing dangling from my shoulder,  
> called out, "Is that a Leica??"
>
> To which I responded, "Yes."
>
> She said, "My boyfriend tricked me into agreeing to let him buy one  
> on Ebay.  He seemed to like to wear the thing, but I never saw any  
> pictures from it


was he a LUG member ?

Steve


> so I made him sell it so we could pay the rent."
>
> Kinda reminds me of that character in "Catch 22" - (Injun Joe  
> maybe?) who was depicted as constantly carrying around some  
> "complicated black camera" but never having any pictures to show  
> for it...
>
> At least my wife can't use this ploy against my M ownership. Not  
> that I think she's looking for such a thing, at least for the moment.
>
> Bob Palmieri
>
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