As you age, do you find yourself becoming more or less irritable?

[johan]

If he wants to erroneously think he won, that I don't care about.  

Fair enough. But he did win. I've had this conversation at work more times than I care to count. Someone will call the office and report that one of my truck drivers was honking his horn at them and gave them the finger etc. I'll ask what happened before that and the answer will always be that nothing happened. Then I'll call my driver and get his side of the story. He'll tell me how the car was trying to pass him and couldn't because of traffic. Then when it finally was able to pass him, it cut right in front of him and slowed down to a crawl, then the driver of the car rolled down his window gave the finger yada yada yada.

My response is always the same. That guy in that car wanted to play a game of lets piss of the truck driver. He threw the ball and you hit it right back to him. He wins. He wanted to push your buttons and he did. And he knows that he did because you were kind enough to tell him so. How's that feel? Does it burn? It looks like it burns. The only way to win that game is to not hit the ball back or even acknowledge that the ball exists. 

Sometimes my guys hear it and they're happier. Sometimes it just falls on deaf ears and they continue to allow other people to ruin their day. Sucks being them.