A Possible Failure Of Priorities

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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A friend was showing me some new camera equipment he bought – he recently became a first-time father, and wanted good stuff to document the kid.

“Nice lens you’ve got there,” I said, popping the lens off of my camera, “mind if I try it?” I wanted to mount it on my camera and take a few shots. But nope, he didn’t trust me to hold his camera lens. 'Cause, you know, it’s very expensive…valuable…and I might drop it.

“No man, sorry…you know how it is. Here, hold Jerry for me and I’ll put the lens on your camera for you”.

So, Jerry – if this board is around years from now, and you come across this, remember the order of things:

A $600 camera lens = too valuable for anyone but your dad to handle.
Six-week-old you = Sure! Take the kid – they bounce, don’t they?

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Kids squirm more than lenses do. But they also have more handles to grab for as they’re on their way to the floor.

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Maybe he thought you had more experience with babies than with lenses?

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If he wouldn’t trust you to hold his lens, why should you trust him to hold your camera?

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The kid was like a week old. The lens was BRAND NEW

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I was thinking this too. Don’t you have like 3-4 kids, Hal?

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time needed for him to replace lens, maybe 30 to 50 hours of work.

time needed for him to replace new born kid, maybe 30 to 50 minutes.

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Am I the only one who thinks this dangerously close to bad porn writing?:stuck_out_tongue:

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Oh, I so hope you get to tell Jerry this story when he’s old enough to hold it against his Dad.

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And you know how it is with kids. They lose half their value the second they leave the vagina.

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You are off by a factor of 10 IME.

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Maybe for him but 9 months work for his wife.

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The difference between men and women -
“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there is a man on base.” (Dave Barry)

It seemed relevant. :slight_smile: