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Subject: [Leica] The Panda Hat "gang" rides the MBTA
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Oct 27 11:15:05 2005

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)
>>> 
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