Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/19

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Subject: [Leica] Quick Leica story
From: photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest)
Date: Wed Sep 19 22:31:51 2007
References: <99BEFB76-C07F-47EA-9227-3883BC0AA839@depaul.edu>

The boyfriend's problem is that he sold the camera & kept the girlfriend.  
Should have been the other way around.  The Leica will always be faithful no 
matter what hell you put it through.
Phil


On Thursday 20 September 2007 00:47, bob palmieri wrote:
> Y'all -
>
> So it seems, I was buying some cat food this evening when a store
> employee, noticing the black thing dangling from my shoulder, called
> out, "Is that a Leica??"
>
> To which I responded, "Yes."
>
> She said, "My boyfriend tricked me into agreeing to let him buy one
> on Ebay.  He seemed to like to wear the thing, but I never saw any
> pictures from it, so I made him sell it so we could pay the rent."
>
> Kinda reminds me of that character in "Catch 22" - (Injun Joe maybe?)
> who was depicted as constantly carrying around some "complicated
> black camera" but never having any pictures to show for it...
>
> At least my wife can't use this ploy against my M ownership. Not that
> I think she's looking for such a thing, at least for the moment.
>
> Bob Palmieri
>
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