Neil
Fellow
Last year I wrote down all the amusing questions I was asked when I was at Craft Fairs. I forgot to start a list this year but was reminded to at the recent show at Southport Flower Show.
Picture this, the Stand is about 3.5m wide and the lathe is on a table to the left and elevated to keep the kids hands away. I am standing on a pedestal so the lathe is at the right operating height and Mr Geek approaches smelling of mothballs, cardigan fraying at the edges and hat which looks like it has just escaped from the washing machine approaches the stand, peers aimlessly at the lathe at a distance of about 9 inches, scanning the corporate colours on the Axminster lathe and suddenly turns to me and asks, "What is the wood made from?"
Did he really mean that? So, testing his stupidity I respond flippantly, "Trees".
Oh dear, the response was "What? Real trees?"
Those sort of genes should not be allowed to spread.
Best one from last season was "Do you make your own ink?"
Faced with a stand of around 300/400 pens, "Do you make watches?"
Whilst leaning over the lathe with a considerable pile of sawdust on me, the lathe and in the immediate vicintiy of the lathe, "Do you import these from Korea?" Best he goes to Specsavers!!
Picture this, the Stand is about 3.5m wide and the lathe is on a table to the left and elevated to keep the kids hands away. I am standing on a pedestal so the lathe is at the right operating height and Mr Geek approaches smelling of mothballs, cardigan fraying at the edges and hat which looks like it has just escaped from the washing machine approaches the stand, peers aimlessly at the lathe at a distance of about 9 inches, scanning the corporate colours on the Axminster lathe and suddenly turns to me and asks, "What is the wood made from?"
Did he really mean that? So, testing his stupidity I respond flippantly, "Trees".
Oh dear, the response was "What? Real trees?"
Those sort of genes should not be allowed to spread.
Best one from last season was "Do you make your own ink?"
Faced with a stand of around 300/400 pens, "Do you make watches?"
Whilst leaning over the lathe with a considerable pile of sawdust on me, the lathe and in the immediate vicintiy of the lathe, "Do you import these from Korea?" Best he goes to Specsavers!!