Dont know how to respond to someone at work. He is a client and is younger than me, I am married and in my 40s he recently send me a text about our early morning work meeting joking that he would see me in his dressing gown period I just texted back a :-) but now wonder if I should have ignored it.
Then when I was talking to him about work and how to get him to remember to do something work-related he suggested that I should pinch him. He is a jokey guy and a bit of a jack the lad but I don't know how to respond. I just changed the subject and went back to talking about work. My work is on a one-to-one basis and I have always said to myself that if I did not like a client I would get rid as other people are available to do my job but I don't know if I am massively over thinking this one. I am completely unused to people flirting with me. I am very professional at work and quite boring and I try to keep Smalltalk to a minimum. Any advice on what I should say or do? Is it normal?