Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Talk about Freudian--that should be "friend" not "fiend"..... Ric On Oct 27, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Ric Carter wrote: > 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. 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