Couldn't it also be that the guy offered you an excellent opportunity to laugh at his renewed approach to fool you? If someone has fooled you once or twice, what do you tell them the third time? Here's how I see it: if someone is fooling himself because he believes in something he really wants to believe in, and he makes a business proposition to you and that belief falls apart, and then he tests the water again, how about hitting him on the shoulder and laughing with him? In your mutual recognition - one player recognizes the other - there is no need for reproach. Didn't you say that it happens to you, too, to have tested the limits of another?

How would it be to get in touch with the irreducible rascal within yourself and say: HaHa, this guy has got some nerve! No, don't bother. Without me this time. But good luck to you!

Are we not fools surrounded by fools? :D

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