Well, I feel everyones pain here. It only takes about 30 seconds working with the public before you realise why revolutions happen. I work in an art gallery and, let me tell you, art is what a number of our patrons have instead of a crumb of humanity.
Already today I've been shouted at by some gonk because it never occured to them that their guide book - a 1997 edition - migh actually go out of date at some point in the following 13 years. Apparently I should personally hae spent every minute of that time providing every guide book publisher on earth with a daily list of what paintings and exhibitions are going to be on because it's too much hassle for some people to phone up or look on the Internet.
I was going to write a series of articles about working in an art gallery for a friend's magazine once but we dumped the idea when it became clear people would just think I was making it all up.
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