I don't know if it was the smeared make-up, the haystack hair, the threadbare goonie or the fact I was slavering at the mouth and clutching on to a screw-top bottle of wine for dear life that horrified him most.
Any time before, say, two o'clock in the afternoon, when even I get a bit twitchy, the postman, the plumber, the gasman or old Uncle Tom Cobley are likely to catch me in my goonie.
But just as the star of 1985 smash The Goonies was getting used to people calling him to discuss Stranger Things, he got a shout to actually appear in the Netflix series.