I went to visit, I went over to a guy I went to school with. I don’t think I’d ever been to his house before. And his parents were away and they had like a college student or somebody house-sitting with them. And she was kinda like in the mix, like we were down, I went down to talk with them. Maybe we were gonna play D&D, I don’t remember. But she was like right there, and I happened to look over on their — what they had hanging on the wall, they had these fabulous like Native American rugs. And I said, “Oh my gosh, those are awesome! I like those Navajo rugs.” And um, oh gosh how did I hear about this.
Maybe it was later, one of the guys who was like at the house told me that after I left, she said that I was like obnoxious or hard to like or something. And one of the reasons she — like the example that she gave or like the evidence she gave, was that I was being a know-it-all by looking at the rugs and saying what tribe had made them. And that just really floored me because I was like, well, I mean, I traveled down to New Mexico and Utah and other areas of the Southwest with my family, and we actually did have some Navajo rugs at our house. But I wasn’t really trying to pretend to be some kind of expert in like, Southwest American textiles. That’s actually just like, what they are called. Like even if you have like a Hopi or a Zuni weaver, people going down there they’d say, “Hey, I’d love to see some Navajo rugs.” So I just, I felt so unjustly accused. I mean, I was simply using just this sort of vernacular vocabulary, and she was accusing me of being like some kind of specialist.