If a friend keeps asking you to do something you do not want to do, you might ask him to leave you alone or "stop bugging me."
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Pollock isn't trained in architecture, so the questions he asks his friend tend to be questions you or I mightask if we met him, and because both of them are engaged in trying to create art in disciplines that are mostly about commerce, they find plenty of common ground.
Just ask yourself, if the guy who does your lawn, or cleans your house, or washes your car, or provides nearly any other service youmight use, were to tell you his hourly rates were going up, would your first reaction be to askhim to work more hours?