Same with me. It's pretty obvious whomever's doing this wants to keep their hands as clean as possible. [For certain definitions of 'clean'.] I ended up mostly telling him that I wasn't going to pretend we were friends, but if he needed to talk to someone, the offer was open.

[He sort of. Holds up a hand.]

Mostly, I was just glad I didn't have to hold a pen for a little bit.