He came away as Certifiably Crazy and RUDE.
We had a neighbor who always cackled when you spoke to him... I think his mind was gone and that’s the only way he could interact with anyone.
No matter what you said... ‘good morning’, ‘how ya doin?’, etc... cackle, cackle... It was always the same and went on invariably until we just stopped talking to him. We thought he lost his mind or his hearing ... so he ALWAYS cackled like a lunatic with the hope that he was responding properly to ‘whatever’ was said to him-rather than admit that he didn’t hear us or didn’t understand what we were talking about.
It was his stock response to life and the dead give-away that he was completely OUT OF TOUCH without the least concern for BEING out of touch!
This sums up the debate last night:
“If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.” Proverbs 29:9