Autor holds his hands up. "Oh, no! In retrospect, your joke was hilarious," he says, and means it. "And it's okay to embarrass me! Friends embarrass each other sometimes--Rae, for one, takes great joy in making me flail--and truth be told, this is something I probably should be embarrassed about on occasion, because it's actually really quite funny, and like I said, was kind of you to do for me, too."