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Today, I've been pondering knowing-you're-right vs. having-them-know-you're right.
At the laundromat Sunday, I was chatting with the attendant (who noticed my macramé) about craft shows. He suggested Clothesline Arts Festival (which is less than a tenth of a mile from my front door); I demurred; I'm thinking very small-scale, school & hospital craft shows, not the big juried art shows. The reason I gave him was one of my three main factors: price. The big art shows in Rochester (probably everywhere) charge too much per table for me to e willing to risk it.
"Nah," he says, "not Clothesline, they're not expensive at all."
I've done research on this. I know what I'm willing to pay for a table, and Clothesline is far above that line. But what did I do?
I shrugged. "Maybe you're right," I admitted, as I was out the door already. I didn't think he was right. I knew I wasn't going to have a booth at Clothesline any time in the near future, if ever. But I wasn't going to argue with him... knowing-you're-right vs. having-them-know-you're right.
I'm not sure I have any developed thoughts on this at the moment, just a general feeling about not-arguing with people. Would it have done any good to have told him I'd looked up the numbers?
At the laundromat Sunday, I was chatting with the attendant (who noticed my macramé) about craft shows. He suggested Clothesline Arts Festival (which is less than a tenth of a mile from my front door); I demurred; I'm thinking very small-scale, school & hospital craft shows, not the big juried art shows. The reason I gave him was one of my three main factors: price. The big art shows in Rochester (probably everywhere) charge too much per table for me to e willing to risk it.
"Nah," he says, "not Clothesline, they're not expensive at all."
I've done research on this. I know what I'm willing to pay for a table, and Clothesline is far above that line. But what did I do?
I shrugged. "Maybe you're right," I admitted, as I was out the door already. I didn't think he was right. I knew I wasn't going to have a booth at Clothesline any time in the near future, if ever. But I wasn't going to argue with him... knowing-you're-right vs. having-them-know-you're right.
I'm not sure I have any developed thoughts on this at the moment, just a general feeling about not-arguing with people. Would it have done any good to have told him I'd looked up the numbers?