I immediately forwarded everything to Mia. She was shocked and horrified but also a little amused by Eric’s absurdity. Chris, with his great sense of humor, decided to fight fire with fire. He created a hilarious “invoice” of his own, charging Eric for bad behavior, manipulation, and wasting everyone’s time. At the bottom, Chris labeled Eric “a full-service embarrassment in public.”
When Eric received the counter-invoice, he lost it. He bombarded me with frantic, angry texts, first claiming it was a joke I’d misunderstood, then calling me sensitive and insisting I had “missed out on a great guy.” He simply couldn’t handle losing control.
