A stranger at the camera swap meet fixed my exposure problem in 30 seconds

I was at the Portland camera swap last month, maybe 9am, and this older guy watched me meter a shot three times and finally walked over. He said, 'stop trusting that meter, just read the shadows and expose for them.' I had been fighting overexposed sky shots for weeks with my Pentax K1000. So I tried it on a roll of Tri-X, just guessed at 1/125 and f/8 in full sun, and every frame came out usable. Has anyone else dumped their light meter entirely or am I just getting lucky?

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