On the sickness of our community

Oh, I'm quite aware that he might well not have actually been employed by RH, but that would have meant imputing bad faith and lying on his part, which was an addition step I was unwilling to make.

Just because someone's being unnecessarily horrible to me doesn't mean he's a liar! It probably means I've done something socially unacceptable without noticing it, yet again. (In this case, I don't think it did, but only because I checked with a bunch of people to make sure that I hadn't said something to offend someone.)