Re: [Leica] LHSA M6: nightmare

["Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>]

> Last night I did something more dangerous than partying pretty young girls
> taking pills proffered by friendly college boys. I ate Spicy Food late at
> night, Chinese, if you must know. Now all you youngsters will not appreciate
> the true horror of this until much later in life but you can trust us
> curmudgeons that it is unwise to say the least. Then, worse by far, came the
> tortured digestion induced nightmare. Leica sent me.......a Black Paint LHSA
> by mistake! Now the moral dilemma was not whether to keep it; of course they
> would figure it out and come looking for their $2600US. I also was not going
> to keep it and send them the money as Mama Collier did not raise any fools;
> $800US premium for a FINISH, forget it. BUT should I open the box and look
> at it?!
>
>  "No sir, I have never heard of Leica. I had to open it up to see sir. I
> thought I had won the Church Ladies Auxiliary's Sunday School Attendance
> Prize. I am in the running you know. I just had to open it up to see. Then I
> was not sure what it was. It looked like a camera but how could I be sure? I
> just ran a couple of rolls through it; not more than 10 or 20 I think. My
> memory is not what it used to be. What a nice.....Oh..... Sorry for
> wandering a bit there sir. Did I mention that I only opened it to see what
> it was?........"
>
> I awoke screaming and my wife had to sedate and restrain me, they figure
> that, if I watch my diet, I should return to some semblance of normalcy in a
> few days.
>
> Could we please lay off the "Should I Buy An LHSA Black Paint Special"
> thread for a while? Thanks, Doctor's orders.
>
> Cheers
>
> John Collier
>
> A true story, honest.
>

John,
I used to have nightmares over a Porsche or sailboat that I wanted, but, a
LHSA Leica, never.
Steve
Annapolis