I worked in an art gallery where we got fun questions.

Do you make all this stuff? Yes. Chuck once tried to explain that nobody in a lifetime could learn all the different techniques to make all this stuff, and that, for example, this ceramicist hass an MFA in ceramics. Reply--Ha! You8're kidding.

When we move gift stuff out of the way to hang a show of pictures people ask Are you moving? No, we just made space because we're having a show, and I indicate the walls of paintings. Reply--Really, what's it going to be?

We had some of those inflatible figures of Munch's "Scream" and people kept asking if it was the kid in Home Alone. I started saying yes, but it was from the original silent film, a german expressionist movie starring Klaus Kinski's father, called Das Kinder Ist In Der Zimmer Mit Kein Alte Leute!!!--or whatever German-sounding title I could fake.

Once when I was entering a credit card purchase, and the machine beeps as you enter, a woman asked if she was standing too close to the pictures. Yes, and instead of asking you not to, I push this button here to beep you away.

But I can't make too much fun. Once a guy came in with a smudge on his forehead and I said excuse me, you have a smudge on your forehead. He said It's Ash Wednesday. I said oh yeah, I saw that on the calendar. But, seriously, dude, you have this smudge on your forehead.