A story from my neighbor back home.

My neighbor from back home the judge was a student radical at the flagship state university during the 70s, and one time she was in a meeting with a top administrator and she got pissed and shook her finger at him and was like, "You have to do this, and you have to that, and you have to do the other!".

At that, the guy kind of grimaced and folded his hands and was like, "[her name], let me tell you first that I like you because you're a very nice person, but you know, I really don't have to do any of those things, because all that I really have to do, is just wait 2 years."

She said that he said that very nicely, and that he really did like her, and that that was one of her first major life lessons.