I'm confused about "that owner just cares about talking to girl which is why he asked me" that feels like a piece of missing context.
"Being their person" is one of those cases of English that PL spits out that makes me wonder where he learned English. The effect some little phrases like that have on me reminds me of these type of sentences which are wrong, but still fully communicates the intended idea:
Understand what means by words yet still order in the know wrong they are.
You know what I mean by that, but you had an aneurysm right? That's like PL trying to communicate "being themselves". It's always the little things that have the greatest effect on me for that type of thing. It's like the uncanny valley version of language.