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Old 01-12-2019, 10:28 AM
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I just smile, look them right in the eye, shake my head, and in a straight forward and welcoming manner say “It’s not an original”.

That generally satisfies their curiosity and either ends it (if they’re a hater) or if genuinely interested, as more often than not, they follow up with, when was it built, what manufacturer, did you built it, etc., and we go from there.

My alternate reality….I cycle through all the options in my head, “you should say this, you shouldn’t say that, it’s not called this, it’s really called that, maybe it’s called this, but he said it’s this, the documents say it's that,’ and as the person walks off wondering why the heck I’m standing there just staring through him, I realize, darn it, I didn’t think fast enough, I should have just directed him to our prior threads on the topic! ☺

Brent
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