Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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) >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information