I had a boss who tried to claim that the "creative process" was helped by him interrupting my coding many, many times per day. With a loud, jovial greeting.

This was year 2000, when you had to write all code yourself, read man pages for info, without Stack Overflow or whatever to guide you. You were more isolated in such tasks, often thinking deeply, especially as a sole dev in a company.

Point is, your joke just brought all that trama back. I'm a peaceful man, but I almost hit him a few times. Major stress. He sort of stopped it when one time, I think I literally has rageful murder in my eyes. He took a step back. and never did it again.

A bendiction... may no other coder experience this horror.