Maybe all of the above!
The theory that has the most current support is that his last gig was at a house in the middle of a bitter divorce.
Whenever we have to raise the volume of our voices to get through to hard of hearing, harder of listening, Alzheimer’s addled mom he runs for cover.
We think one of the aggrieved spouses dumped him miles and miles away and blandly asserted ‘he ran away’...