[voice]
Passing time on trivial affairs is the same as wasting it!
[He's not even going to give that one time to sink in. Blunt:] I'm not going.
[Being proud and stubborn works for him. Most of the time. It isn't that he hasn't got a clue, it's that he ignores clues when it comes to things like this. What do they call it, selective hearing?]