Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henning Wulff wrote: >> > I was having lunch with a model last week and happened to snap a photo >> >> Go ahead, gloat about it . . . >> >>> . . .she'd never been photographed by anyone using film before. . . >>> . . .she gave the leica a curious going over, pronounced it "cute but >>> strange" and we continued with lunch. >> >> >>> Remember when I used to be the youngster in this group? I'm falling >>> apart anymore. >> >> >> Kyle, you have just had your first "Oh, God, I'm *really* not a kid >> anymore!" experience. Mine was about 15 years ago when I admired the deft >> modifications female co-worker of mine had made to a printed circuit >> board. I joked that you didn't have to have such dexterity when I learned >> electronics and got my ham radio license, since a lot of stuff then was >> still based on tubes. >> >> She looked at me blankly and said "Tubes?" >> >> And then it hit me. >> >> So, bro', we feel your pain. You can take comfort in the fact that >> physical rot and senility is still a ways off. However, you may find that >> your coolness quotient begins to go down. The gothgrrl and rockerbabe >> models will no longer see you as edgy, with a thrillingly dangerous air. >> Instead, they'll begin to view you you as cute and adorable, in a retro, >> big-brotherly kind of way. You'll live. >> >> --Peter >> > > About 6 or 7 years ago a neighbour's kid of about 12 came over while I > was outside the garage and asked to use our phone, as he had locked > himself out of the house. I directed him to the phone in the garage, > which was an old black rotary dial desk phone. He picked up the > receiver, looked at the dial and then at me and asked "How do you work > this?". > I had the same experience recently with a couple of kids of about the same age. The situation was a cheap rental car that had manual roll-up windows. The kids were first baffled, then fascinated :-). I'd frankly forgotten that manual car windows had fallen out of common experience. Rolfe - -- Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com | 96 Morton Street (212) 463-0029 | New York, Ny 10014 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html