I agree that is what she is doing, but it's terribly unfair to me and not doing her a bit of good for her to be reinforced daily to continue being an overbearing, maladjusted snot nose. And I can see my continuing to appear to be putting up with it she sees as validation it is okay to continue and that she is right in her skewed opinion that she is the Queen of Everything. She's a third-grade bully and every bully I ever knew ran to the teacher crying "so-and-so hit me!" without ever mentioning "I pushed so-and-so down the stairs first" or something like that. The field I am in is immaterial, but suffice it to say I am not talking about her drill sergeant to my grunt.