Ed Huntress wrote:

It isn't clear what you mean. If you mean that I throw it
right back

That's exactly what I mean.

I don't have the patience or forbearance
of Mother Theresa -- or of my wife, for that matter.

If you are trading insults (or near that) with childish ignorant people (like the construction workers, factory workers, janitors who imagine that they all are engineers or successful businessmen, instead and that's about it for this group) then what's the difference between your patience and theirs?