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Subject: [Leica] The Panda Hat "gang" rides the MBTA
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Thu Oct 27 11:03:09 2005
References: <6.1.0.6.2.20051027084924.06190b28@192.168.100.42> <BF8684E9.7665%bdcolen@comcast.net>

B.D.,

I love stories about first meetings like this for the same reason I
love flying into an airport where I know someone is going to meet me
and I picture the airplane and the car converging - although in the
case of first meetings there is no expectation, simply two
trajectories with some, perhaps chance, interaction that makes a
difference.

I was in the Navy when I met my wife, at the Nuclear Power Training
School in Bainbridge, MD. I used to do my uniforms at a Laundromat in
Aberdeen where the LOL who ran it also decided she "needed bridge
experience" so she invited me and my future wife and another man for
an evening of bridge in the back of the laundromat. I liked Jan a lot
but I thought she left with the man in his 240Z (he was a machine-gun
salesman visiting the proving grounds) and so it wasn't until a chance
encounter at the local A&P that I discovered she wasn't with him and,
two days before I left Bainbridge for Windsor, CT we met - and
conducted our courtship via letter and telephone and occasional visits
in Pascagoula, MS until we were married two years later - having been
in each others physical presence for less than 30 days.

The joys of military romances.

Adam

On 10/27/05, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:
> There are times when I think we were all separated at birth - I met my wife
> on the Washington Monument grounds on the original Earth Day - I was 
> wearing
> jeans and a denim jacket with the red "Strike!" fist on the back, though
> part of the Wash Post team covering the event. We ended up a casual
> conversation with a date, and my wife then told her room mates she had her
> first date with a "hippy." And I showed up to pick her up wearing a Brooks
> Brother's suit. :-)
>
>
> On 10/27/05 11:53 AM, "Richard" <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote:
>
> > At 08:33 AM 10/27/2005, B. D. Colen wrote:
> >
> >> First one works nicely for me, Richard, because of the weirdness of two
> >> panda hats and the angle of the shot. Second one doesn't work as well,
> >> because one slightly goofy hat strikes me as just that - one slightly 
> >> goofy
> >> hat. ;-)
> >
> > Thanks for the comment, what really struck me is how "scary" this 
> > innocent
> > kid can look with the weirdo lighting / angle in the photo. It reminds me
> > when my wife first met me in college, she was absolutely sure I must be 
> > in
> > the gang or something (well, I was from NYC). My mom made me get a hair 
> > cut
> > a few months afterward and she had a change of opinion! :-)
> >
> > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please
> > use richard at imagecraft.com)
> >
> >
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