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Subject: [Leica] The Panda Hat "gang" rides the MBTA
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Thu Oct 27 12:57:52 2005
References: <4cfa589b0510271103h8a73d22he82ecc0945b4da7f@mail.gmail.com> <BF86913F.7673%bdcolen@comcast.net> <4cfa589b0510271239r10ff603cjd285b0bba54c97e6@mail.gmail.com> <256FB488-9C23-44A4-8291-A96E4C70A6D9@mindspring.com>

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. To reach me  
>>>>>> directly, please
>>>>>> use richard at imagecraft.com)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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