Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jem- Possibly one or moreof those magazines have the dreaded Leica Curse- sort of like the Mummy's Curse, or the curse on the Hope Diamond ( Yeah, the Hope family went down the tubes after getting, I hear!) :o}~ Be careful, or the boogars will git ya! Dan - ----- Original Message ----- From: Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 4:35 AM Subject: [Leica] Leica Stories > Folks, > Things have taken a strange turn for the worst of late... > I was tootling down the road to buy some Leica Fotografie magazines (some > 63 for the sake of one 'lost sheep') and when I returned I created a car > accident. 3 cars damaged, no-one injured thankfully. > Yesterday (only 2 days later) I went into Manchester to visit the local > Leica emporium and ended up driving into a concrete pillar in a > multi-storey car park! I think it must have 'jumped out on me'! > The result; two accident claims in 3 days, my first ever since I started > driving some 25 years ago, and both of them related to pursuance of Leica. > I think I'm being told something here... > a) get a life in something other than Leica... > b) Drive with more care and concentration. > > In deference to the first of these considerations I'm getting out of here > before the world ends on me. ;-) > Today I'm wading through 6 rolls of a 7 day hiking journey and need to > print a few 12x16 masterpieces for my folio entries, now what could poss > ibly go wrong inside the house... > > Wish me well, see you around. > > Jem > jem.kime@cwcom.net