On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Shannon Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shannon@scatter.com">shannon@scatter.com</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>I'm a big guy, I speak in an authoritative tone, and he was extremely deferential in exactly the way you'd expect from someone meek unexpectedly encountering an authority figure, and I still found the whole thing extremely awkward. Even though there wasn't any "unpleasantness," in the sense that nobody yelled or was confrontational, it was still extremely socially awkward, put me in a position of uncomfortable power distance, and was also very time consuming -- I think it was a ten or fifteen minute conversation.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right, and I am decidedly <i>not</i> a big guy. Imagine me trying to have that conversation, but on the street outside the gate. I don't think it would have gone well.</div></div>