Generally I am a pretty laid back person who doesn't experience daily emotional extremes. I also try to control my feelings and filter them to channel them effectively. Today something happened where I lost my temper, which rarely happens. I live and work in a 3rd world country and as I was stuck in traffic, some street kids came to the window. I had no cash and after 60 seconds of polite waves they moved onto the vehicle in the lane beside me. Much to my astonishment, the lady driving started to give the kids the middle finger, antagonising them and then filming their reactions on her iPhone. This went on for several minutes as the traffic didn't move. I was really disgusted and appalled. I've lived in several countries with street kids which is heartbreaking, and I would never treat them so poorly. I swallowed down my outrage and drove on as the traffic moved, but could feel the righteous anger rising. She overtook me then pulled over to the police, where she started to pull out her phone to report the kids (she had antagonised them to the point where they were responding with the middle finger and other insults). As I saw her do this, I lost my cool and wound down the car window. In my anger, I shouted at her (as she stood beside the police officer) and called her a "vile , disgusting person" who "should be ashamed". I got the middle finger from her, and I responded with the rather old fashioned "shame on you" as I drove off. I don't like losing control, but in that moment emotion took over from reason and I spoke my mind. I'm not proud of this and feel a degree of guilt. Part of me thinks "who am I to intervene" whilst somewhere in my mind I can hear the accusation "a man shouldn't speak like this to a women" etc. As I process this incident, I am wondering what the stoic response would be, and maybe what I can learn about myself from this. I am not proud of the incident but at the same time, feel that it was just that this person was held accountable for her actions by an impartialstranger who saw everything unfold. So...what is the best stoic answer to my actions? What would you have done?