Maybe you folks have better ideas...

[cjsmith]

What do you do when someone dumps a steaming pile of judgment all over you, still warm from the source?

I haven't yet learned how to not care, and I'm often bad with a quick zinger of a comeback. So what I do is just kinda mope. Not optimal I suppose.

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[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way. I tend to take things way too personally, and I'm not good with quick retorts.

The most helpful thing I know is to remember what an old friend of mine in West Virginia used to say when I'd complain about something like that happening: "Consider the source." If you think it with a slight roll of your eyes and shrug of your shoulders, it's quite useful.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Indeed, something like that (while not as satisfying to the ego as a quick retort) is very soothing in its own right, even applied after the fact. :-)