Ayyar has said it twice.

Ninety seconds of being unrecognized is much harder to survive than being recognized and sneered at.

Because the sneer at least confirms the story.

The sneer means it was real, it mattered, they remember.

Standing inside a door for ninety seconds in a suit while a hundred and eighty-four people you went to school with carry on talking means something much worse, which is that you were not, and are not, the subject of anything.

Greg Pafford did come over.