Looking for free information and angry not to get it

Comment by Robin Ragsdale on January 14, 2012 at 11:16am

Wow, Larry. What a jerk that guy was. I really don't think he represents the next generation, though. Every barrel has a few bad apples, and that one found you.

Anyway, you can't be familiar with every point-n-shoot out there. After giving him some general guidelines, I would have told him to find his camera's manual and look up how to use it. Maybe take a class at the local community college if he really wants to be a photographer.

Hope he doesn't bother you again!

Robin Ragsdale

www.evenbetterimages.com

Comment by Alison Thomas on January 14, 2012 at 11:18am

Your answer to the first question should have added "and I will help you for x dollars per hour."

Comment by Barry Bernstein on January 14, 2012 at 2:12pm

Larry, this doesn't surprise me and he probably was an adult. The question is: Where did he get your phone number?  Maybe you shouldn't put your phone # on every post.  I am even removing my phone # from my cards because I am tired of getting spam text messages and calls after every show I do.  If they want to communicate with me bad enough, they can send me an email, first. 

Comment by Larry Berman on January 14, 2012 at 3:39pm

He got my phone number from my web site.

I can't imagine that an adult would act like that.

There's a great deli near our house that we get food from a few times a week. They have various teenagers working there. The other day I purchased four bottles of Snapple for $1.10 each and gave him a $5 bill. He entered the amount wrong and had to totally redo the transaction on the register to figure out I was to get 60 cents change.

There is an entire generation out there who doesn't know how to do math, or even tell time.

Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100

Comment by Robin Ragsdale on January 14, 2012 at 5:44pm

Don't be dissing all the teens. My high school age daughter is way beyond me in math skills, has a strong sense of right and wrong, and she's usually early to wherever she says she will be. I know adults who could take lessons from her.

Comment by Larry Berman on January 14, 2012 at 6:00pm

Hi Robin,

I'm not really dissing teans. It's just that the exceptions are the ones that stand out and are remembered. In all actuality, I wouldn't be surprised if the person who called me was a young adult, maybe mid twenties but acting like someone ten years younger, maybe giving teens a bad rep.

Larry Berman
including my phone number because I'm not going to let one jerk change the way I do business.
412-401-8100

Comment by Bill Coleman Entertainment on January 16, 2012 at 11:52am

Increasingly, I find folks don't bother to return emails, or if they do, they haven't read the entire email and write back asking for information that they already have.  Smart phones and the like truncate subject lines to 30 characters leading to confusion.  Same with phone calls, why bother returning the call, just use Face Book!     And FB pages don't list contact info, and newspapers and chamber of commerce websites make you dig to find out what state they are in . . . and the list goes on.  Signal to noise ration is decreasing.  Good news: Nigerian scam emails seem to be decreasing!

Comment by cappi phillips on January 16, 2012 at 11:55am

I live a block from a major university and see rude behavior everyday from "young adults" who think the world owes them a living.  Bad manners in restaurants, while driving, on cell phones, and as neighbors.  I am just happy that I don't have to deal with their parents as well.  That's where it all begins....

That being said, I know there are thousands of intelligent, well-mannered, wonderful students that also reside in my community...it's just the "bad eggs" one tends to remember.

Comment by Greg Little on January 16, 2012 at 6:59pm

Every generation has its share of idiots and also really good people. That has never changed and never is likely to change. All of the communication methods just make it easier for everyone to show their true nature.

Comment by Terry McCray on January 16, 2012 at 7:06pm

Larry I am eternally grateful for the free information I get from you and all the other artists through the AFI forums, blogs and individual websites.  Your, as well as others, information has been encouraging, thought provoking, and instructional.  Yes it does require that I read, compare, and sometimes conduct further research and even experimentation.  The outcome is that I have the reward of retaining the knowledge and gaining some practical experience.  Your rude caller on the otherhand wanted to be spoon fed and no doubt would have called later for more morsels rather than applying the information on his own.  So Larry know there are likely hundreds of us that are grateful for your willingness to share information.  Don't let one little rude p*** ant ruin your day!

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