Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:38 AM 17-02-99 -0300, Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca> wrote: >How many of you folks had to chip! your car out of a block of ice this morning? > >JEEEZ! It's on days like this I wonder why I didn't take up tropical flower >photography. > >Assignment was 8:30AM. I'm out the door at 8:00 but due to freezing rain >(no, not cold... FREEZING on contact., turning to ICE) the car is encased in >ice. In deed, the streets and sidewalk are like a skating rink. > >...did I mention I live on a hill? That skating rink is on a hill. >(...think about for a second) > >While scraping ice from the car windows, I fall. Leica M6 leaves my >shoulder proceeds to makes it way DOWN the ice covered street.... picking up >speed as it goes. > >I scream in horror as it heads for the main road at the bottom of my street. > >My neighbour, 3 doors down, hears my scream, looks up from his ice scraping >and spots the M6 coming towards him..... an calmly bends down and grabs the >strap as it rockets past him. > >Mercifully, there was a happy ending. No broken bones (just a bruised >backside) assignment got done and M6 SURVIVED!.... but it doesn't quite >qualify for MINT status anymore. > >...what a day... > Reminds me of Mr Bean scooting down the street in his out of control Morris Mini ! jh