I wrote him an e-mail telling him thanks for lunch but that I was really uncomfortable and that it wasn't going to work. He just sat there at the table and didn't have a thing to say. When I mentioned that, he said he was "just relaxing." He was the one to ask me to lunch, but when he got there he said he wasn't hungry because he already ate. Then he commented on "boy, you've almost eaten all of that salad." Well, duh, we were meeting for lunch, I was hungry, and it was a small chicken salad that wasn't all that filling. He kept saying kind of stupid things to the wait staff. If you knew he was just trying to be funny, it would have been funny, but these kids just didn't get it and weren't amused. I was kind of embarrased for him. He said he wanted a Coke. They said they only had Pepsi products. "I want a Coke. OK, Pepsi's fine." Then he said he wanted the clam linguine. This is a mom and pop restaurant, roast beef and mashed potatoes and breakfast-all-day kind of place. I thought he was trying to be inappropriately funny. When we first sat down, the first thing out of his mouth was "So say something funny." Geeez, I can't be funny on command. Give me a break.

Talk about a disaster.