RE: Have you ever judged a book by its cover?
Since you told us you had a garden and prepared tasty drinks in the mourning my next guess is that you had beautiful roses everyday in your room, i like white ones, i don't know, make me feel like in the royalty hahahaha, also i friggen love orange juice in the morning.
After so many years i can recognize people that wanna show off and pretend. I do some trading with people that have rolex on their wrists but they bought them maybe 10 years later after working so hard so its kinda different.
To me, (call me crazy) i love transparent and honest people, i value that a lot, and they are also the best to do business with, they can even tell you, "im sorry i am not qualified for that" instead of damaging your business due to inexperience and say yes to everything.