Sorry that I have not had the pleasure of making your acquaintance, but I just wanted to share a tid-bit of information with you.
It is indeed fortuitous that you slipped loose with a beaming smile, after saying "Sir, this guy won't leave me alone!" to me in such a distressed tone. I applaud your voice and/or drama coach.
I say that because had you not smiled, in the nick of time, there would have been what the authorities call an "altercation" and your partner and I would have had extremely interesting weekends, linked only by the nature of institutionalization.
I try to dress the part, in order to ward off such hi-jinks, but apparently I need to kick up the audio-visual sociopathy a notch or two.