Being A Know-It-All Show-Off

I had a cool thing happen last weekend.  I was at a work event that had some hoopla-- one of our volunteers had arranged for a photographer contact of his to take some pictures of the event.  The "photographer" was an older man, at least 65.  He was trying to take some shots of the sign I had made and had displayed in a frame.  He kept talking about how the flash was washing out the info  on the sign so he took a few different shots- one with flash and one without.  Maybe he was planning on merging them? I don't know.  I don't know his background or his professional training in photography, but he had lots of cool gear.  I very politely asked if he had tried using a polarizing filter to reduce the glare coming off the frame.  He looked at me silently for a minute and then mumbled some things.  About 15 minutes later I saw him return from a trip to his car, attaching a filter. :)  That was fun! :) I don't really know what I am doing with so much of it, but it sure was fun to a have a baby piece of knowledge that might have been the right answer on a subject I so badly want to master.