Ruse You Can Bruise for 2003 November 19

From conversation with Leonard: It is difficult to get other people to go to lunch with him. It's not the agreeing to join him for companionship; it's literally the going. He makes the invitation, the other person says, "sure, just one more thing," and tries to find the necessary person for the dependency of that one thing. The other person is temporarily gone, so the invitee starts doing something else... just herding the invitee(s) into the elevator is, Leonard says, "like trying to eat all the ghosts in Pac-Man."