How to add a custom event handler for v-click-outside on v-menu component?

[seanbv-cat]

Hello, I'm looking to add a custom event handler to my v-menu component that prevents the menu from closing whenever you click outside and none of the items in the popout are selected. I tried many different things but cant seem to seem to stop the event from propagation after I capture it:

here is example codepen: https://codepen.io/sean-sadykoff/pen/vYQrNZE?editors=1010