Never underestimate the audacity of the small-minded and slightly scrupulous. A rather breezed young neighbor decided to have a grammar battle with me. It lasted all of two seconds. I said something slightly amicable, and he responded with, “You sure that's how you use that word?” I put down my laundry basket and turned to him slowly and deliberately.“Do you really want to have this discussion with me, son, or do you want to go home and rethink your life?” He grumbled and vanished.