Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:10 AM 9/27/00 -0700, you wrote: >Tina "Mom" Manley wrote: > > > Husbands shop for cameras, cars, cigars and conceal them from the > > wives. > >Dear Mom, > >I need help. I've only been married 3 years, so I'm not yet wise in >the ways of concealing. My wife never digs through my camera bag, so >that's not a problem. My quandary is our garage. She's no longer >buying that I cleaned up all the junk and put it under a tarp. When >the new license plates came in the mail, she started getting >suspicious. She's noticed that sometimes when I go off to work, our >car is still in the garage, but the heap of junk under the tarp is >gone. You can do what my husband did. I left on a trip to Central America and he bought a Mazda Miata convertible. He showed up in it at the airport and claimed it was a gift for me! After sitting in a canoe for 10 days, I had to sit on my camera bag and luggage all the way home from the airport. Somehow it has turned out that he has been driving the Miata to work - just to check it out for me. I'm not sure my R8 will fit in the trunk anyway! >What do I do? More to the point, how many dresses do I need to buy >her, and should I let her pick out the shoes? Last Christmas, I >already used the trick of cutting the tags out of her dress and >replacing them with ones that indicated the dress is a full size >smaller than what she normally wears. I'm running out of ideas! NO! Now she is supposed to buy the dresses for herself and conceal them from you. When you admire a new dress, she will say, "This old thing! I've had this for ages." My husband can't tell the difference between an M6 and an M3 so it's no problem when I buy new cameras or lenses unless I get something dramatically different like the N**** 990 that I just bought. Then I can bring up the Miata that he bought without asking me! Mom Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com