Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You folks are doing this the hard way. When I want a new lens I TELL my wife. "I wish I had a Noctilux (or 100 macro or whatever) Then SHE buys it for me. Ken Wilcox At 9:07 AM -0400 9/27/0, Tina Manley wrote: >At 05:10 AM 9/27/00 -0700, you wrote: >>Tina "Mom" Manley wrote: >> >> > Husbands shop for cameras, cars, cigars and conceal them from the >> > wives. >> >>Dear Mom, >> >>I need help. I've only been married 3 years, so I'm not yet wise in >>the ways of concealing. My wife never digs through my camera bag, so >>that's not a problem. My quandary is our garage. She's no longer >>buying that I cleaned up all the junk and put it under a tarp. When >>the new license plates came in the mail, she started getting >>suspicious. She's noticed that sometimes when I go off to work, our >>car is still in the garage, but the heap of junk under the tarp is >>gone. > > >You can do what my husband did. I left on a trip to Central America and he >bought a Mazda Miata convertible. He showed up in it at the airport and >claimed it was a gift for me! After sitting in a canoe for 10 days, I had >to sit on my camera bag and luggage all the way home from the >airport. Somehow it has turned out that he has been driving the Miata to >work - just to check it out for me. I'm not sure my R8 will fit in the >trunk anyway! > > >>What do I do? More to the point, how many dresses do I need to buy >>her, and should I let her pick out the shoes? Last Christmas, I >>already used the trick of cutting the tags out of her dress and >>replacing them with ones that indicated the dress is a full size >>smaller than what she normally wears. I'm running out of ideas! > > >NO! Now she is supposed to buy the dresses for herself and conceal them >from you. When you admire a new dress, she will say, "This old >thing! I've had this for ages." > >My husband can't tell the difference between an M6 and an M3 so it's no >problem when I buy new cameras or lenses unless I get something >dramatically different like the N**** 990 that I just bought. Then I can >bring up the Miata that he bought without asking me! > >Mom >Tina Manley, ASMP >http://www.tinamanley.com DO NOT use the reply fuction! Address any response to wilcox@tir.com - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>