I wasn't thinking about how to make a good first impression when he was about to offer skull juice to a child.

[sure she had to disrupt the baseball game she was invited to at the park, but the team was very impressed by her arm strength even when they had no idea why she threw the ball]

I was thinking you'd be less susceptible and see what would happen if you took the skull. One of my theories is that it's not really the man doing the aforementioned actions but the skull itself.