Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Knew I should have left the plastic at home.
From: Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 20:33:21 -0700 (PDT)

LOL! Been there...it hurts but it sure is fun! 
- --- "C. L. Basso, K.C.S., M.Sc." <urizen@telocity.com>
wrote:
> Wandered over to a Leica day on Saturday.  Good
> thing the Mrs. was in Grand 
> Rapids.
> 
> I started out looking for a 0.58 M6 (so I could
> finally see 35mm framelines 
> comfortably), and maybe a 35/2.  Price on the body
> was darn good - ~$1450 
> after rebate - so I bought the thing.  Black, of
> course, as all my other Ms 
> are - if it blends in with the others SWMBO won't
> notice it as 
> readily.   Then I can pull the old "oh, I've had
> that for a while" 
> routine.  Yeah, that's the ticket.
> 
> And then I saw it.  It.  Staring at me from a corner
> of the counter.  The 
> Lens of Evil I'd coveted for twenty years, spawned
> in the pits of Midland 
> and dedicated to hoovering out my wallet.  Yep, a
> serious case of <jarring 
> chord> Noctilust (or should that be Naughtilux?) had
> overtaken me.  Then 
> the internal dialogue began...
> 
> Good Me:  "Wait, what do you need *that* for?"
> 
> Bad Me:  "What do I need *anything* for?"
> 
> Good Me:  "Your M bodies are all 0.72."
> 
> Bad Me:  "And 0.58 now."
> 
> Good Me:  "Doesn't matter.  You won't be able to
> focus that thing."
> 
> Bad Me:  "Ted can."
> 
> Good Me:  "You're not Ted."
> 
> Bad Me:  "I know.  I know.  I probably won't be able
> to reliably focus it."
> 
> Good Me:  "Good, now let's go.  You've already got
> one body waiting at the 
> register."
> 
> Bad Me:  "Say, what about a 0.85 body?"
> 
> Good Me:  "Don't even *think* about going there."
> 
> Bad Me:  "Maybe I can get a deal if I buy a 0.85
> body with the Noct."
> 
> Good Me:  "Maybe you'll be sleeping in the garage
> until you're fifty."
> 
> Bad Me:  "Hey, Leica Demo Guy.  What price will you
> give me on the Noct if 
> I take a 0.85 body too?"
> 
> 
> And somewhere deep in the offices of my creditors
> there was much rejoicing.
> 
> 
> 
> Goodbye and hello, as always.
> --
> C. L. Basso, K.C.S., M.Sc.         Walled Lake,
> Michigan
> "The whole of life is /nothing/ more than questions
> that have taken unto
> themselves shape, and bear within themselves the sum
> of their own answer:
> and answers that are pregnant with questions.  Only
> fools see it otherwise."
>   -- Gustav Meyrink, /Der Golem/
> 
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