Pete's a good guy, but if your reading had been correct at the start all chrys had to say was, "I was talking about the old one. I hadn't seen his new one. My mistake."Pete doesn't
He didn't.
When people began making a point of it at any time it would have been easy and within the sphere of his self interest to clarify.
He didn't. At no point did he remotely advance that.
So either Pete is wrong about chrys' intentions or chrys decided to allow people the wrong impression about him and invited what follows.
I think you're peddling revisionist history.