Woo hoo - two comments on my last post.....that's way awesome!!! 

Is he under control yet?  No, not yet, but I've also realized that his behavior is not something I can control.  Or is it???  Humm....lets think about this for a minute.  The mirror image theory states (simply put) that people project to the outside world, the opposite of what they see themselves as.  This being the case, one could concievably not necessarily control, but strongly influence the behavior of another person buy having a reaction that is exactly the opposite from what their initial reaction would be.  Interesting though.

So, if this guy is walking around acting crazy, why react to him as though he is, throw him off, take the wind out of his sails?  Will it work?  Who knows!!!  But it's worth a shot.  Either he'll stop acting like he has been and try a new attention getting approach, or we'll find out that he really is crazy and introduce him to his new friend, "Mr. Straight Jacket".

And if worse comes to worse and neither of those things happen, then I'll just ignore him and basically refuse to acknowledge his existence.

Ah, now see? That makes perfect sense. No, you can't control another person BUT you can give them something different to react to. It's almost impossible to react to someone in the same old way if they're behaving differently -- make sense? ;)