Burn It

Let's suppose, just as an example, that you were sick of your wife - and then a man came along who would buy her off you. She's happy to go, and your life would remain completely unchanged but now you'd be a free agent. There is no visible downside to you in the situation.

Would you:

(a) sit down sensibly for a three way chat to conclude the deal?

or

(b) refuse to sit down sensibly even though the meeting had been in your diary with red flags all over it for over a month;
arrange for lots of other people to be there having meetings with you at the same time;
bounce in and out in a casual manner;
take calls on your mobile phone;
talk your wife down to the point where the suitor is wondering whether he's still interested;
talk yourself up so he now wants to buy you as well;
shout at him when he has the temerity to propose this;
shout at your wife till he is so embarrassed he pretends he needs to use the bathroom;
take the lunch that was ordered for him and give to some other visitors;
take your wife's car so she cannot take him back to the station at the end of his sorry visit;
send the PA out on spurious dry cleaning errands so she can't take him either;
ensure that the only other staff car in the carpark is boxed in by your visitor's car (who has now gone someone in your wife's car with you);
ring your wife and tell her she mishandled the situation?

It's just a fr'instance. Idle curiosity.