Lance returned to his table after conversing with many different patrons at the bar, his friend Carl said "your hobnobbery makes you look like an asshole."
hobnob v 1. to mingle, usually with the upper class of society.
The verb hobnob originally meant “to drink together” and occurred as a varying phrase, hob or nob, hob-a-nob, or hob and nob, the first of which is recorded in 1763.
A person who is important solely because of their position within a given organization, and generally creates a fuss upon news of their impending arrival