England - Pencil Museum in Keswick, Exit Display / Sandwich Shop Conversation (sort of)

With this shot we'll end this series on the pencil museum.  Afterwards Andrew and I lunched with a sandwich in a little café they had next to the gift shop.  It was here that I learned something about the British character.  Upon seeing the Bigger Cahoona parked on the table as we were eating, a kindly older gentleman with his wife was passing by and asked what kind it was.  After telling him, he made a remark about how nice it was, etc.  I, being a clueless American, took this as a sign that he wanted to have a conversation about photography.  Didn't take me long to observe that that wasn't the case at all, and that he probably couldn't care less about anything beyond a direct answer to his question.  Andrew observed the same thing last time he was in the UK - the beginning of a conversation initiated by a stranger doesn't mean that it needs to lead to a real conversation at all...

Next stop - a slate mine!