"Padraig" wrote in message
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My wife and I went to the "Green Scene Home & Garden Show" at Cal State
Fullerton's Arboretum yesterday and I saw this and a couple of other
interesting cacti at a vendor's stall, and had just told her I thought I'd
buy this when a cranky old gal who either ran the stall or merely worked
there came up and said "Sir, no photographs please!" in a really foul tone
of voice.

No sale.
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Good for you. You get that kind of person sometimes. We make and sell
reproduction historical items and I remember at one fair that a chap selling
rubbish plaster casts and doing fortune telling held up his hand to his eyes
when a camera appeared - said it would be stealing his soul! He's now in
prison, the rest of us believed that he didn't want evidence of his untaxed
trading ...

When a camera appears Spouse (who's far more picturesque than I am!) whips
off his un-mediaeval spectacles :-)

Many people ask if they can take pictures of us and our goods, that's a nice
courtesy but we don't mind when they don't.

Mary