I don't get to hide expenditure from my wife, either - she's a professional bean counter (green eye shade and everything), so she handles all the household finances. When she found out that there was a new Pentax being announced next month (shortly after my birthday) she let me know that there was no way I was getting a present from her on my birthday - I think she's resigned to the fact that the third digital body might be close to arriving here.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:55:01PM -0300, Luiz Felipe wrote: > I only reached that point last month, after filling the house for more > than a month with borrowed cameras and lenses and bags, and making small > movements in my mercado livre account. She's still wondering, however... > > LF > > Jack Davis escreveu: >> My wife closely scrutinizes our "JOINT" bank account. I know, I have no idea >> at this point how that happened. ;( >> While auditing, she wears a green plastic eye shade and to hold her >> sleeves up, elastic arm bands. >> >> Jack >> >> >> --- On Mon, 4/27/09, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> From: William Robb <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: Interesting DA 60-250mm test shots >>> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >>> Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 7:53 AM >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Davis" >>> Subject: Re: Interesting DA 60-250mm test shots >>> >>> >>>> I just printed out your post to put on my wife's >>> pillow tonight. >>>> You should expect an email with singed edges. 8-() >>>> >>> Something I discovered is that to my wife, one lens looks >>> pretty much like another. Eventually, you reach a tipping point where >>> they >>> just can't tell if a lens is new or if they just didn'notice it, and >>> a >>> short time later, they just stop noticing. >>> When I had three lenses, bringing a new lens into the house >>> was difficult. >>> I no longer have that problem. >>> >>> William Robb >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >>> directly above and follow the directions. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> > > -- > Luiz Felipe > luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br > http://techmit.com.br/luizfelipe/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
