I'm thinking, per my day yesterday, "You don't want to know me and you don't want to know what I'm thinking. Rest assured in knowing that I will allow you to speak to me in that manner not because you are smarter, funnier, tougher, or intimidating but because you hold a position of authority over me. You have shown that you like to push and push until you get a reaction, and you use this method to gauge where peoples' limits are. Unfortunately, this will not work with me because I never tip my hand. Please also rest assured in knowing that it will be very clear to you if you cross one of my boundaries. I don't bark. And you will never see it coming when it does. So let us hope, for both of our sakes, that our time together stays quite limited."