maybe they didnt know about wolverines and though you made it up.
I once did that at tate modern - this woman was getting on my nerves constantly stepping in front of me and repeating anything i said about a picture to her companion as though she thought i had any knowledge i was just reading the brochure - we walked into one room and it seemed to be just everyday household equipment covered in plaster of paris bandages but it did include a wheel barrow and a ladder - out of the window across the river i spotted a builders yard with stuff lying around and this woman is standing in front of me - yet again - and i turned to my friend and said "clearly the artist has taken his detail from the light reflections he has seen in the yard opposite and used them in such a way as to make a statment about the starkness and coldness of the life of a builders labourer, which he has to endure in order to make a living in a city full of capitalists,the plaster banadages being indicative of the manner in which he is enslaved and forced to deny his socialist leanings " (totally made up in a totally pretentious voice)
then stood back as she repeated that as well
talking about trying to be nice and getting mixed reactions i had a knock on the door last night - this guy said he was doing a survey on radio listening and i said i dont really listen to radio we have very limited signal up here -but he said thats ok its for non radio listeners too -so i am stood in the pitch dark - he has a lanyard but i cant see what it says and anyone can get a lanyard and i,m waiting for questions but he says he has to come in and put my answers on his laptop but it will only take about ten mintes - at which point i am getting a bit suspicious - even more so when he says it also involves listening to radio over the next week then him coming back - even though i had pointed out there is no signal - so i said no i didnt think it was for me -i wasnt rude i said sorry -and off he went.
So thinking about older people etc and my suspicions, i decided if i didnt say anything and some-one got mugged i would feel guilty so i i posted on the community website of the next town, knowing a few people up here are on there and could pass it on to others i dont know - some people agreed with me that i did the right thing not leting him in, but then some-one chimed up it is genuine he came to mine last summer - well thats fine in summer its light and maybe i would have reacted differently if i,m honest -but then some-one else piped up why do people have to be suspicious all the time he was just doing his job - i stopped reading after that - you cant do right for doing wrong as my mum used to say.