The Stillmeadow Road

"Too many people, I think, are what I call No people. It's a habit which grows like Jack's beanstalk, so that if you even say it is cold, they say at once, "No, it isn't cold. It's just the wind." It's a habit I thoroughly dislike, not that I mind being called wrong on every count, but it is fatiguing. I'm tempted to do the contradicting myself first, just to see what would happen. It usually belongs to people, I note, who cannot bear to be contradicted themselves at all."
-Gladys Taber's The Stillmeadow Road