Have you ever seen a stranger give you the stink eye?  As a repsonse, have you ever given the stink eye right back, largely to cover your bases as you try to figure out who he is and what the genesis of this conflict is?  After a few seconds, you then withdraw the stink eye and get back to whatever business or pleasure or boredom you are attending to, as per not coming up with any answers as to why this stranger is giving you the stink eye or why you should care.

What if you meet up with him again?  What if this time he asks, point-blank “Why were you giving me the stink eye just then?”  I imagine my answer to be a bunch of stammering, with “You did it first!”

The conflict can escalate or de-escalate from there depending on a number of factors that seem only assigned to the fates.

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