Think nothing of it bagster.

But don't you think your problem in approaching this chap was that he assumed you were what our medical friends reduce to the acronym GROLI ? Surely if you'd been smartly turned out in a Crombie suit with a copy of the Telegraph tucked under your arm the chap would have not only have been naturally deferential but also taken pity on the assumption that you had a hard day ahead of you firing junior traders.

Is it not that your face simply no longer fits amongst the Daily Mail readers of your retirement estate? Don't you sometimes yearn to dismantle your yurt and move out to a nice double-garaged neo-Georgian teepee in Surrey?