Not only would turning off the phone be bad for his business, but what if he were to have an emergency? What if someone neded to get in touch with him? If you want to pose an alternative, make it a viable and realistic one.
Bad for his business? Are you kidding? So behaving like a jerk doesnt? Opps I forgot, he is an "artist" so its okay to behave like a jerk. Here is a viable and realistic one, a phone with an answering machine and a phone (cell) with a number for emergency.
I'm not saying that you have to kiss his ass. I'm saying that if you show up on Pete's doorstep (figuratively speaking) and chose him above all other cuemakers, obviously he has done something to impress you or wow you. When you achieve the level of success or stature within an industry the way he has, he is a little desrving of a degree of a certain degree of respect. Now I'm not saying you should kiss his ass. But its his work that has dazzled you. Not the other way around.
I didnt say he doesnt deserve respect, but I, the customer, also deserves respect.
But his mother did not insult you. Your retaliation was a shot at his mother. If someone insults you and you choose to respond, say something to him about him. Bringing his mother into it is infantile and, truthfully speaking, out-dated. The 'your mother' line died years ago.
Ugh, would you get over it? When his mother gets back with me, Ill apoligize to his mother.
I can't respond to the first half of this paragraph as I have no idea what point you are trying to make. As for the second half, you should deal specifically with cuemaker's who put the cue as priority number one. Not business. Any cuemaker who is focusing on the money he makes and the orders he takes as opposed to making solid, beautiful cues is, in my opinion, a bad cuemaker.
What I am saying is I have got alot of PM telling me I was right, but could not have their names noted because some "artist" might retailiate.
Again, i respectfully disagree. JimBo's arguments have a foundation. They are based in lucid, rational thought. And I've never seen him revert to 'I did your momma' or anything of that nature.
