Even stranger. Was it intended to be a joke? I don’t get it.
It was absolutely real, a really strange event, believe it or not, he was Jewish.
We didn’t like each other, it really bothered him that I was the artist’s best friend and had been for over 40 years, my friend was European and elegant and worldly while the sandwich guy was a rich but small minded groupie seeking some prestige, and he resented that I was an intimate with a casual beer drinking, mutual overnight visits buddy relationship, and he wasn’t, and never would be.