As you get older and gain wisdom from life, you gain more respect for yourself and tolerate a little less idiots that you come across, and your spine becomes a bit more hardened for you to stand up for yourself against such types. 'Why Panic' is a good demonstration of this.
As someone who has, in the words of someone else I might add, and he borrowed them from elsewhere, suffered more than the usual share of the 'slings and arrows of outrageous fortune' ('That's Life, deal with it!' has been my attitude, generally) and is about to reach the big 60,* I second the above remarks.
* Yeah I know,
Griffo and others; I'm still a young bugger!!!
