| cabbie: Oh, the Hyatt? You here for the convention? me: Yeah...Um...uh...I'm here for the American Glass... I'm not sure, what thing are you talking about? cabbie: Yeah, there's a big Magician's convention in town. It's at the Adams Mark but I'm sure some are staying at the Hyatt. me: Ok. Interesting. No, I'm going to a conference of Stained glass Artists. cabbie: Ah yeah, stained glass, that's a lost art, isn't it? me: Well, no, not really? cabbie: Is there much call for that these days? me: Well, the northeast has a lot of restoration work and there is some new work and the southeast does have quite a bit of new work. Church work mainly smaller churches. Blah blah blah... cabbie: What about Tiffany lamps? Is that stained glass? me: Yes, well, I certainly think so. cabbie: Yeah, well I belong to the Corning, uh you know... me: Musuem of Glass? cabbie: Yeah, something like that, Well, we go down there a few times a year. And last year we hear from them that they are having a sale of Tiffany Lamps. So my daughter and my wife and I we go down there and by the time we got there they were all sold out! I'm not surprised you know. They were selling for 59 dollars, for something that normally goes for a coupla hundred bucks. Not bad, hey. The conversation pretty much ended at that point. |