It's like when someone says they want to go birding with you and they really just want to get you alone in the woods so they can steal your binoculars.
This goes a long way in explaining the incredibly warm and sociable, yet undeniably peculiar Xerox tech that I would interact with on a regular basis. Despite him not actually working for the company, I would have to call him in constantly to get him to fix one or more of the machines we had in the office.
Ref: https://youtu.be/JlwwVuSUUfc