[Leica] What would you do if wifey dropped your MP?

[rdcb37 at dodo.com.au (Rick Dykstra)]

I'm still looking for one part actually and I'd be glad to find it,  
tear stained or not.  A tiny piece of plastic from the hood that  
forms a bridge between the cutout for the clip and the cutout to  
allow a view through the hood.  I hope the neighbours didn't see me  
crawling around on the driveway this morning, looking for it.  With  
that little piece my hood would be complete again.

Rick.

On 28/08/2005, at 11:11 AM, Joe Leung wrote:

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> Dictum of the day.
> (By Ted Grant):-
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> <<<<<<<But later as you pick-up the pieces don't let your tear  
> drops get
> salt  water on the salvageable parts. :-)>>>>>>>
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> Joe L
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jcyleung8=shaw.ca@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jcyleung8=shaw.ca@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of  
> Ted Grant
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:46 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] What would you do if wifey dropped your MP?
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> Howdy folks,
> A very interesting topic to say the least given the variation of  
> responses.
> :-) So here's mine . :-)
>
> Now what's first and foremost for you all to understand is... "My wife
> bought me my first camera for birthday May 27, 1950!"  Leading to  
> my first
> newspaper picture 17 September 1951! :-) Followed by her life time  
> of 56
> years of wondering where in the world is my husband? :-)
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> And completely questioning her sanity at buying the first camera on  
> many an
> occasion. Hell far more than any of you know or understand what she  
> put up
> with without killing me! :-). :-)
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> If she dropped and smashed it to pieces? Hell so what, it's only a  
> tool,
> it's insured get another as I was going to replace it anyway!  
> Besides what
> could I say to this wonderful life that a dozen or more men or  
> women would
> kill to have enjoyed, suffered the failures, pee'd yer pants with  
> excitement
> and fear and survived to do it all again. ;-)
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> Nope a Leica is nothing more than a tool in our in hands, if it get's
> smashed what the hell, who cares as it's a not a breathing human.  
> Sure I
> understand most of you are not pro's and have saved your money from  
> income
> to purchase, a damn lot of money. But if you do not have it insured  
> then
> your the idiot for not doing so, given it's a damn expensive tool!  
> Toy?
>
> Look at it this way............ you insure your car, your office and
> belongings, house, life. So why not the camera and lenses of multi  
> thousands
> of dollars?
>
> So if the woman you love dearly and children? My word how could you  
> yell,
> scream at or whatever if one of your children accidentally, and  
> even though
> you told them a thousand times not to "touch daddy's camera" but  
> they blew
> it to pieces and you didn't have it insured?
>
> Now shouldn't you be screaming at you idiot?... "Yourself for not  
> having it
> in replaceable insurance!" And that's the reality of this whole  
> topic. You
> and how you look after and insure your gear!
>
> Besides after you've smashed, like totalled a couple to "miny,  
> minor pieces
> or bent so bad it would make yer mother cry at the site. So when that
> wonderful woman whom you married with great passion and love drops  
> one and
> bends it badly, why in heavens carry on like a wailing banshee over a
> non-breathing item. Besides most of you folks don't make your  
> living from it
> so it's really a no big deal because you wont need it in a couple  
> of hours
> for an important shoot. And for sure "no body died because it got  
> smashed!"
>
> That is unless you can't control your rage at the pieces lying all  
> over the
> drive way and she wailing and cringing in the corner! ;-) And you take
> unfortunate action! :-(
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> Sure we'd all be upset, that's a reasonable human re-action, put it  
> in the
> context it can be replaced by a phone call or drive to the local  
> camera
> store in 99.9999999999% of the time. Actually who cares.
>
> Heck I'd be more upset if the film were lost more than the camera  
> any day.
>
> My first bad choice response to my wife would be...."Hey no big  
> deal I was
> going to get it replaced anyway!"
>
> Now under certain situations that would be the wrong thing to say  
> to a woman
> you've been married to for 56 years!;-) Because I know her anguish  
> would
> quickly disappear by... "What do you mean you were going to get it
> replaced?" And the attack would have you on the defensive faster  
> than you
> could blink! :-)
>
> Better response, "it's OK dear no big loss, Love ya!" ;-) Give her  
> a big
> hug! But later as you pick-up the pieces don't let your tear drops  
> get salt
> water on the salvageable parts. :-)
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> ted
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