2. Escalating is always kind of emotionally tempting, but I think it ends up being tactically poor, because he's not likely to behave *more* reasonably if I make him angry. It may depend on whether my game goal is to convince the crowd that I'm the one who's right, or get him to throw away his trash. On the other hand, ringrose is more naturally intimidating than I am, so he may be better able to get results from angry confrontation than I am.

3. I was expecting it would be something like "Okay, she's gone, sorry about that, here, give me that back". Then he could drop it again. Dunno, it's hard for me to construct a very solid simulation of someone who wants that badly to drop his paper on the floor. :)