[Leica] closing bell

[sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)]

I'm much too young to remember horse-drawn milk wagons tho' I do remember 
milk bottles with a big bulge in the neck where the cream collected. But I 
must be older than Ted - naw, Seth, no one is olde than Ted - because I 
never got more than a quarter for shoveling snow from neighbors' driveways 
and I never, ever, found that rich neighbor who paid double. In fact, my dad 
paid even less than a quarter for HIS driveway = $0.00. He called it sharing 
family chores. which included raking leaves in autumn.

On the other hand, when I got home from the summer when he let me borrow his 
Leica IIIa w/ 50/2 Summar and asked him if I could buy his camera (thinking 
in my dreams that he would say: hey, son, it will be your next birthday 
present), instead he expressed a willingness to sell it and to work out a 
fair purchase price. It was my first effort at negotiation. We agreed on a 
price - probably ten or fifteen dollars - which, of course, I couldn't 
afford to pay cash and that led to the second negotiation of my life, a 
hire-purchase arrangement. With a weekly allowance of $0.25 and none of Ted 
Grant's rich and generous neighbors, it took me mebbe two years to pay the 
wretched thing off. But when I had done so, that camera meant so much more 
to me than if Dad had simply given it to me, a lesson that I have carried 
since. He was a very good and a very smart man. 'Course he was, we were law 
partners till he died.

LaK9

Seth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Adler" <rgacpa@yahoo.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] closing bell


>I think we all have such memories. I remember horse drawn milk delivery, 
>catching and selling boiled blue crab for $1 a dozen, and being thrilled at 
>getting a dollar for washing a car (and really washing it to meet the white 
>glove test!).
>
> I wonder what my kids will remember...
>
>
> Funny, haven't thought of that stuff for awhile. Thanks for triggering 
> those memories Seth and Ted.
> Best,
> Bob
>
> Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.raflexions.com
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 8:22:55 AM
> Subject: RE: [Leica] closing bell
>
> Hi Seth,
>
> And what wonderful fun it was when we were kids! :-)
>
> You could shovel the side walk of a home and earn .50! :-) Or the very odd
> time if it were a "rich" neighbour with a big sidewalk and driveway.. Make 
> a
> "whole dollar!"
>
>
>
> Then who was the imagined "millionaire?" :-)
>
>
>
> There are such fond memories of snow and childhood!
>
>
>
> But as a senior?????????????? AaaaaaaaaaaaccccccccccccccccKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!
> :-)
>
>
>
> ted
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Seth
> Rosner
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 4:20 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] closing bell
>
>
>
> I feel like a closing bell. Here in the North Country, as I write this the
>
> air temp outside my window is -21 Celsius but I make myself happy by
>
> translating that into -6 F. Haven't wanted to ascertain what the windchill
>
> temp is. And that's the good news; the bad news is that there is a severe
>
> winter storm watch brewing: 6-12" of fresh snow expected to fall between 4
>
> this afternoon and noon tomorrow. Full moon is at 0328GMT tomorrow morning
>
> but it certainly looked like a full moon setting when I awakened at 4:30
>
> this morning.     :-)
>
>
>
> Ta,
>
>
>
> Seth
>
>
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