i just remembered this story my friend told me recently, about how he was at a stop light with his music blaring and his windows down (for others to enjoy, haha) and this middle aged man pulled up next to him and started to somehow (i don’t remember) make fun of him. he turned his music down, looked over at the man and smiled and said hello. the man looked confused, then offered a nervous, “hey?” after a moment he asked, “do i know you?” my friend replied “no man, you don’t, and it looks like i wouldn’t want to either.” the man apparently just sat there looking completely confused and defeated, and my friend drove off. with calmness and kindness he turned what could have been a typical adult-bashing-teenager story into an adult-gets-humiliated-by-smart-teenager story just by not being afraid to peacefully stand his ground.