*sigh* I wrote all about this, in detail, in my journal. But I can sum it up. I did a naive little clownish thing. Hard to explain, but I'll do my best. I talked to him about four or five times. Briefly, mostly questions I tried very hard to be relevent to his artwork. The last bit, I caught him and asked a question about one of his smaller pieces - naively hoping I could maybe buy something. I made the major mistake of asking how much one of his tarot card pieces were. His pat response was, "1200". Well, in a moment of naive lightheartedness, I did a little dejected gesture by slumping my shoulders. It's a habit I do, part of my personality. Well, it was not appreciated. I was chided by him ("Dear, you know, a lot of hard work, time, and effort went into making those."), and while I desperately tried to apologize, he walked away.
My personal opinion was that he could have reacted to that a little differently. He could have not said anything at all, no big deal. He could have waited for me to apologize, placated me a little. I'm twenty four. I'm allowed naive moments. So, whatever. I felt horrible after that happened, and wanted to get away as soon as possible. Now I just figured he could have handled it better.
So there you go. The short short version.