I just laughed and said 'yep, i can see that!' which I don't think was the answer she was expecting...
Ds1 will charm the pants off her and then ignore everything she says. He will probably end up interviewing her. He spent two years seeing the school counsellor for these issues and he would breeze in, distract her for an hour, breeze out, and she would call me in later and say how well he was doing. I'd ask what he said about the residential trip and she would say 'oh, it sounds as though he had a great time! I couldn't get a word in edge ways!' and I would go 'mmmm. Did he mention that every single other child on the bus was chanting 'someone's shit themselves, it stinks! Who has shit?' for two hours? And she would blanch slightly and then apologise for not having had the sense to ask him about, y'know, what he was seeing her for. He's goooooooood. And he left her feeling all warm and cosy that she was doing a good job, and he would come home and hide his pants and then lie about it. I only knew about the bus because dd1 was on the same trip... Not that it wasn't obvious when he got home, he was sodden and indeed stank. But I wouldn't have known about the two hours of jeering and shouting. Poor little bugger.
Ups and downs, eh?
My mum does make me laugh sometimes when she says 'you used to do that' and it's always something that drives me crazy. He currently puts on a really bad American accent when he's talking to the paed. 