Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/07

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Subject: [Leica] Fw: fun & games
From: "David Medley" <dmedley@whidbey.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:42:00 -0700

- -----Original Message-----
From: Georgette Oden <
To: dmedley@whidbey.net <dmedley@whidbey.net>
Date: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: fun & games

>
>David--
>
>You're more than welcome to post anything to the LUG-- I thought of that
>once I was here and I'm glad you're doing it.  Hello everyone!
>
>I've seen a bunch of Leicas here, of course.
>
>One funny story-- I was running in the pitch dark across a cow field in
>Portadown to catch up with and get in front of a small band of
>Orangemen's sons who were marching up to the barricade at the church....
>of course stupidly I was trying to reload film at the same time; dropped
>the baseplate into the tall grass and it was lost forever.  It cost me
>=A3300 for a new one!  *long gargling, choking, gasping noise*   So don'=
t
>reload on the run in the dark through tall grass or you'll drop
>something very expensive into a cow patty.
>
>More later...
>
>Georgette, reporting live from Ireland.
>