Smarminess

I sent hot printer guy a text today. I know I shouldn't have made the first move but if I were to even feign sincerity regarding the friendship I had forged, it wasn't out of line. I simply wanted him to check into some scuttlebutt I had heard about being regarded as high maintenance by an assignment editor. I thought it may also shed some light on the curmudgeon who sat next to HPG and his acerbic tone with me (curmudgeon was known to take frequent smoke breaks with the editor in question).
ME: I have an assignment for you.
HPG: What is it? How is az?
ME: Get the scoop on me. Why (those guys) don't like me.
HPG: They don't dislike you, you silly girl.
ME: (major passive aggressive tone)Some reporter u r. Ok now u can go back to pretending I don't exist.
What?! He hasn't emailed or texted since last Thursday, he deserves some grief.
HPG: You are a weird...
ME: That's not very nice
HPG: You made snide comments...
I struggled with this part. I had made snide remarks but were they out of line? Was I coming across like a.. a girl?
ME: I'm sorry
HPG: Ha...ha.. For what?
See! You can't be too hard on a player, they need to be checked. Here I was putting aside a myriad of cleverly cutting quips and he was toying with me. I'll see your mockery and raise you..
ME: Forget it. You're mean
in the absence of wit I chose to be wimpy
HPG: I'm being sincere!
ME: By Laughing at my apology? And snide wasn't even my intent.
HPG: I wasn't laughing at your apology I was laughing at the misunderstanding...
again with the ellipses. it is cute, tho, yeah? no? Jealous
ME: What 'misunderstanding'?
HPG: Where you felt the need to apologize
ME: I'm fighting the urge to be snide
HPG: You be as snide as you like
ME: U can't handle it
HPG: I think you are just trying to buy time to think of something snide to say
Damn! He's right, I'm suddenly afflicted with writer's block
ME: LOL! You're hotter when you keep your smarminess in check
HPG: I have no smarminess! That was snide!
ME: Thank you. Thank you very much. U epitomize smarminess.
HPG: Smarmy is for country club polo players.. i am a very humble man
ME: U, my dear, possess at times the unctuous air of a self-assured Casanova.
THE END. No more texts from very HPG. But it was also past midnight when I sent my last text so he may have opted to turn in after being called on his hubris. I figure if men like a challenge, I'm definitely not sending sweet nothings. He can think I'm toying with him or bored as long as neither assumption means I'm really interested. Because I'm not really interested. Unless he is. Then, I would reconsider my interest.