You don't want to deliberately infuriate him--telling him to say hi from you would be baiting him. It's lowering yourself to MLCer behaviour--though oten tempting. We've all done it.
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What I meant by it did not go well is that I tried to keep my cool and he got angrier and angrier with me.
That is exactly what I thought you meant. It doesn't mean it is not working.
Even without this crisis we should all learn not to escalate bait to an argument. Of course it will infuriate him--he's trying his darndest to piss you off and failing...or that is how it's supposed to work--that he fails. You'd be frustrated too. Just keep ding it and eventually...evetually may be a long time--he will find someone else to bait, someone who will argue back.
Arguing won't work with you because you aren't going to play your part.