@Eggie I think it is sweet. I understand why you are embarrased, but it is not nice when people try to trick you. If your boss did not laugh with you, and tell you not to worry about, then the whole thing seems mean spirited, which makes them mean. That stands out more in my mind, than whether you should have figured out they were pulling your leg. I used to work with a bunch of guys who used to love to sit back and watch me spin my wheels with customers they knew were a pain in the neck. We called them chronics. They would see the customer coming, step back, and let me do my little spiel, all happy and excited they wanted to try on a bunch of clothes. After the customer left, sometimes having bought stuff, sometimes not, but if they did, most of it was coming back in a week, they would crack up, and let me in on how annoying that customer was going to be, and how I just wasted a lot of time catering to them. But, I loved those guys, and it was like an inside joke, and was not mean spirited in the end. They did tons to help me all of the time, and they did that stuff to everyone.