I had another spot in mind I was going to paint instead of this, but a very large man saw me getting ready to set up.
He asked what I was doing from across the very busy road.
Me: I'm gonna paint
Him: That's not cool. Go paint somewhere else. It looks like you're......(unintelligible speech because of cars whizzing by).
I said nothing, packed up, and did what he said, I painted somewhere else.
While getting ready at the next spot, I saw a woman walking towards me - I was already thinking she was going to tell me to leave too, but it was quite the opposite. She wanted to know if I needed help, as she thought my car might have been stuck. When I told her I was just gonna paint, she had no problem with it.
A man who was mowing grass near the area came up to me and complimented me on the painting. I asked him if he needed me to move so that he could mow the grass near me, he said he would do it in the morning - for little old me! Incredible difference of attitude between people just by driving half a mile down the road.
