I'm spending the night in Temple, TX. There just accidentally happens to be a bar next to th3e truck stop. I've been accidentally stopping in there for years.
At some point during the evening's conversation I mentioned that I had taken up knitting. The reaction was hilarious.
"You're doing what?" bartender.
"Knitting? Like with yarn and stuff?" fellow driver.
Etc...
"Yeah, ya know, a couple of sticks and some string" me.
I walked out to my truck and grabbed Irish hiking scarf I am working on and brought it back into the bar as proof. I even had to knit a couple of rows just to prove it.
"cool", "that's really nice", "awesome" were the reactions I got at that point.
Geez, you wouldn't think a bit of string would create such a fuss.