He entertained me with a sumptuous Syrian lunch of vegetables, salads, fruits, and cheeses.
Sometimes he would entertain me with anecdotes, other times he would stop talking, stuck in some interior excoriation.
He entertained me with fanciful tales, including an unlikely account of bumping into bin Laden at cocktail parties at the American Embassy during the jihad against the Soviets.
As we headed towards St Davids at a stately 30mph, Maddy entertained me with a tailback count: "Three cars behind us.
Instead she entertained me with a yarn about how she nearly burnt down her flat while trying to bake a potato – under the grill.
I walked to Lopez Mendez beach, on the Atlantic side of the island, with Geiza who entertained me with tales of pirate ghosts and listened for howler monkeys and the cheerful call of the red-headed tangara bird.
I remember that a decade ago I saw the very same bird in the Masai Mara, only then it entertained me with a four-note call which bore an uncanny similarity to the famous Morecambe and Wise signature tune, Bring me Sunshine.
Actually, it wasn't her first fuck, obviously, as she had a baby by what was also evidently not her first fuck - she had a long and turbulent history with men, she used to entertain me with it.
Two years ago, its boat ramp was closed, its shrinking harbor abandoned to an epic flock of American coots feasting on the critters left in the muck and an osprey that entertained me with a spectacular dive to pick off a stranded fish.
My dentist, a hard-working professional as well as a devoted wife and mother of two small children, whom I've had cause to visit with alarming frequency in the past few years, has entertained me with tales of demolishing and rebuilding her Brooklyn house — bought 10 years ago but still undergoing the final touches as of August — throughout this period.
I also kept the business card of a limousine driver in Michigan who entertained me with hair-raising stories about accidents he'd been in, one of which caused the injury that inspired him to add a flourish to his signature: a happy face with just one eye.
