Different strokes for different folks

As I'm fortunate enough to work in the centre of London, I went to the Cézanne exhibition at lunchtime today. This was mainly because my girlfriend told me that a section of the introductory video was hilarious (and she was right).

I had about 2 minutes to rush around the actual exhibition afterwards and noticed an old man sitting on one of the comfortable seats in the centre of the room, looking at one of the paintings. Rather than examining the painting close up, to study the brush strokes, he had elected to look at it through a pair of binoculars.

Why?

Perhaps his eyesight was so bad that he believed the painted bathers to be real, and he was perving on them. Or maybe the binoculars were actually the wrong way round, and (this would explain why he was on the other side of the room) he was in fact trying to envisage what the painting would look like at the size of a postage stamp. For his job, commissioning art for new postage stamps.

It never ceases to amaze me how odd people can be.