Who knows what gets into him sometimes. I've quit trying to guess.

You want to know what really turned the tide in your favor? The fact that you didn't get all pissy about it in your post. Now you seem to think he'd turned you down flat, but when I talked to him about it there was still plenty of wiggle room. I was actually surprised when your post was published -- because I thought the jury was still deliberating. In any case, you managed to wrangle a ticket and the rest, as they say, is history.

At least that's the story I got. But again ... with The Weasel ... who knows?