Man, that is a strange one and I am glad you kept your head about you. Having somebody walk up at a lonely truck stop and pull out a photo like that would rattle me too, especially with the date on the back looking so planned out. The part about wanting your cap for cover is what really gets me, because that sounds like a test to see how you react or how much you will go along with. I have heard a few stories like this over the years, mostly around that part of New Mexico, and they almost always end with the person leaving in a hurry in a car with no plates. You did the right thing by not handing anything over and by getting out of there. Stay safe on those back roads, because there are folks out there who get a kick out of messing with people.

Once he stopped laughing, it stopped being fair game. That's the whole thing. A joke about his divorce only works if he's in on it, and the second he's not, you're just being a jerk about something that actually hurt him. My old crew had the same problem after one guy's meltdown, and we just quietly dropped the divorce stuff and kept the jokes about bad beats and bad golf swings.