"I wanna talk to the manager" "I AM the manager 😈"
That wonderful feeling when you let your (normally hidden) ego come out a bit:
A student was cheating in the final exam (they had not one, but two phones!) and asked to speak to someone of higher authority when I finally went to confront them. "I am the higher authority", I replied with a calm expression (although inside I wanted to laugh and flash my PhD badge). "Yeah, she's the highest authority in this whole stadium 🤦♀️, she's the prof", said my TA. Student was outraged. "This is unfair!", they shouted. Heheh.
Feels good man, keep it up fellow scholars ;)
Side note: I can definitely understand how profs can get bitter and egotistical after dealing with this crap for many years. Also how cops can do police brutality when there is a power imbalance...