Re: What to Take When The Marriage Fails

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Bummer! Happened to me in 1980. I managed to get the Hasselblads out, but
she hid the Nikon R-10 and Bolex projector- she felt that was a good trade,
and I never let her know any different!
- -----Original Message-----
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, 09 November, 1997 11:10 AM
Subject: What to Take When The Marriage Fails

>My wife threw me out.  The last time she did this, she started tossing
>binoculars at me -- luckily, these were Zeiss and Docter glasses, and
>tough.  Only one was damaged, and the Lifetime Warranty fixed that.
>
>Now, she tosses me out again, more peacefully this time, but I don't trust
>her.  What to take?
>
>The answer is economic:  I rated all by economic standards.  That is, the
>first trip saw my gear worth more than $US 1,000 go with me -- Leica M6,
>Rollei 2.8GX, Questar, APO (Leica TM!) Televid, 1.5/7.5cm Biotar, and so
>forth.  The second run saw me dropping to the $750 range (Rollei 2.8F, VISO
>lenses).  The run today will see me clean out the last of the LTM stuff and
>the Mutar and so forth.
>
>She left four messages on my answering machine and then called a fifth time
>and got me:  she wants to talk.  Sheezh!  I am TIRED after lugging all this
>German (yeah, the Questar is American, but it might as well be German for
>its weight!) metal around!
>
>Life is hell:  I did leave the Canon EOS for her.
>
>Marc
>
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>