People try hard to be funny. It may have been him just trying to be funny. Sad you took him that way.
I had a friend, both our husbands were in the Federal Aviation Agency. They were flying when she decided to be funny. Her husband was already aboard in the cockpit when she was boarding , she said to the captain " Hi Jack" it was back when there were a lot of hijacking. They grabbed her out of line and took her into a secure room, went over her with a fine tooth comb and then her husband came and after a big hullabaloo, they let her on the plane. She was very abashed and told me she would never joke around again near an aircraft.
