When I read what your h told you it came across to me that maybe he was perhaps trying to show off a bit? Maybe in some bizarre teenage way shock/ have some kind of impact/ get a reaction out of you. It is kind of bizarre and reminded me of a few boys when I was at school- things like that was their way of flirting... my school was a bit weird and repressed! Personally I would just glide over it and not react.
