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Subject: [Leica] The Panda Hat "gang" rides the MBTA
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Thu Oct 27 12:39:33 2005
References: <4cfa589b0510271103h8a73d22he82ecc0945b4da7f@mail.gmail.com> <BF86913F.7673%bdcolen@comcast.net>

oops - I didn't mean to send that to the whole list - I was
distracted. My apologies everyone. B. D. your leaking gas tank
definitely tops the machine-gun salesman (when composited with the
Brooks Brothers suit, especially!)

ab

On 10/27/05, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:
> Your story - complete with 240Z and machine gun salesman tops mine, Adam.
> Although...the one detail I left out was that I showed up for our first 
> date
> in my Brooks Brothers' suit on my Honda 305 "Superhawk" with its leaking 
> gas
> tank and barely working brakes.:-)
>
>
> On 10/27/05 2:03 PM, "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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Replies: Reply from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] The Panda Hat "gang" rides the MBTA)
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