Be careful how you agree

[caddyman]

The world is indeed a bizarre place.

I have just had a long telephone conversation in which the person I was talking to agreed with me so aggressively, that I was very tempted to reverse my decision just to shut him up.

I think he was expecting me to say 'no' and was all geared up to argue his corner. I caught him offside by saying 'yes' and he started to argue the point anyway before realising what he was doing.

I should have suggested that I would reconsider as a consequence of his impassioned argument and put the phone down. That would have left him on tenterhooks…