I agree ... we did not get to 'hear' the conversation but the tone / words you relayed in your post made it not about the 'urgency' being a red flag for me ... cause I have interviewed people who needed care to start on a Monday due to emergency pulling of a child from a program that was not working for them .... for me the 'assumption' that you would hold the spot for some person you have never met and the presumptions that your spot would definitely go to him like you had no 'say' in the matter - that would be a NO GO for me over here!