“But NEVER lose eye contact. You will be surprised just how many of these bold punks turn to jelly when you whip your best jail house out of your back pocket and DON’T BACK DOWN.”
As an RN, on the way home one night from the hospital, I stopped at an accident between 2 semi-trucks. I was first on the scene. In my best nurse/mom, “I’m in charge here,” I stood in the road and demanded the one trucker give me his flashlight. He tried, “no, it’s mine.” I stared him down and continued demanding. He sheepishly gave it up. It was only later it occurred to me, and made me weak in the knees, he was a young, black man at least twice my size. My attitude of authority made him compliant. I doubt I would have tried that if it wasn’t an emergency and I wasn’t on nurse auto-pilot. lol. It was a good lesson.