Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not that it tops either of your stories, but Kitty (my wife of 21 years) and I met when she and her boy fiend took the photo/darkroom course I was teaching at the local community college. Luckily, both my daughters, when they met him some years back, agreed she made the right choice. At least that's what they said to my face;^) Ric Carter http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies On Oct 27, 2005, at 3:39 PM, Adam Bridge wrote: > 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) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>>> information >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>>> information >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >