I watched him do it at a car dealership.

I once watched him do it to a contractor over a bathroom and I was, at the time, admiring.

He was doing it to me in a kitchen on a Monday night and I did not recognize the technique because I had never been on the other side of it.

The house was, in fact, in his mother’s name.

That part is true and it had been since 2011 and there had been an entirely ordinary tax reason for it that I had signed papers about and had not thought of since.

The cars were, in fact, on the company’s books.