to regret going into a certain well-known health food shop and say, as a joke,

[OrmRenewed]

'Got any miracle cures for a cold?".

Mistake

I only went in for some agnus castus. I finally fought him off and escaped with just some herbal throat sweets!

Not unreasonable - but a bit naive Like me when dragged into a church to look at a nativity play, got chatting with the vicar and vaguely asked, 'so which bits of the bible are true then?' - a gleam in his eye, a willing victim identified, I eventually managed to get away, but only with a pile of loaned books about biblical history...

Oh dear! Much worse. How long did it take you to escape his clutches?